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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND 
JERICHO. 


I 


SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND 
JERICHO 


^  ^eri'cg  of  QTemperance  Eetjtbal  ©isrourscs 


BY 


REV.  LOUIS  ALBERT  BANKS,  D.D. 


AUTHOR    OF  "THE   PEOPLe's   CHRIST,"    "  WHITE   SLAVES,"    "  THE  REVIVAL 
QUIVER,"    "--r,....,,.,    — 1    ..    ,, 

LITK,' 


"    "COMMON    FOLKS'    RELIGION,"    "  THE    HONEYCOMBS   OF 


•  "    "  HEAVENLY    TRADE-WINDS, 


CHRIST    AND     HIS 


FRIENDS,"  "the  CHRIST    DREAM,"  "  THE  SALOON- 
KEEPER'S LEDGER,"    "the    FISHERMAN 
AND   HIS    FRIENDS,"   ETC. 


WITH    INTRODUCTION    BY 

THE  REV.  C.  II.  MEAD,  D.D., 

Secretary  of  the  National  Temperance  Society 


NEW  YORK 
FUNK  &   WAGNALLS    COMPANY 

LONDON    AND   TORONTO 
1896 


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Copyright,  1896, 
By  Funk  &  Wagnalls  Company. 


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TO  MY  FRIEND, 


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OF  SILVHK  CKEEK,    N.Y. 


A  Faithful  Worker  in  tiir  Ticmi-eranck  R 


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IS   GRATEFULLY   DEDICATED    BY 


The  Author. 


CONTENTS. 


-  I'Ar.R 

Introduction 

The  Value  of  the  Total  Abstinence  Pledge    .     .  n 

Seeking  for  the  Black  Sheep 28 

The  Romance  of  Woman's  Work  for  Tlmi-ekanck 

Reform ^ 

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The  Church  and  thm  Saloon y^ 

The    Saloon   as  a    Business   Investment    for   the 

Community gj^ 

The  Social  Wine-Glas^s ,02 

The   Preslnt   Status   and  Outlook  of  the  Tem- 
perance Movement ,,§ 


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INTRODUCTION. 


KI*:V.    C.    H.    MKAI),    D.I). 
Secretary  of  the  National  Ten.perance  Society. 

The   last    battle  in   the  war  against  stron- 
drink  will  be  fought  at  the  ballot-box  ;  and  at 
that  point   will  King  Alcohol  meet  his  Appo- 
mattox.     ]n,t    before   that    battle,    which    will 
end  in  sure  and  certain  victory,  is  fought,  tre- 
mendous  work  must   be   done.     Plearts   must 
be    stirred,    consciences    must    be   quickened, 
youth    must    be  trained,   soldiers  must  be  re' 
cruited,    and    sentiment    must   be   crystallized. 
That  means    agitation  and  education;   at  the 
fireside,  in  the  schoolroom,  in  the  church,  and 
on  the  printed  page.     Every  home  and  school 
and  church  must  become   a  recruiting-station 
and    every   parent    and    teacher   and   preacher 
must  become  a  recruiting-officer.     The  parent 
must  train,  and  the  teacher  must  instruct,  and 
the  preacher  must  warn.     Apologists  must  be 
silenced,  and  appetites  must  be  changed,  and 
avarice  must  be  checkmated.     Protection  must 

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IiVTROD  UC  TION. 


be  taken  from  the  saloon,  and  be  given  to 
the  boy.  All  this  involves  consecration,  and 
time,  and  labor,  and  sacrifice,  and  prayer,  and 
speech,  and  song,  before  the  walls  of  Jericho 
shall  fall.  It  will  require  man  to  pray  as  if 
everything  depended  on  God,  and  to  work  as 
if  everything  depended  on  man.  No  hesitat- 
ing, no  faltering,  no  cowardice,  but  a  never- 
failing  confidence  in  the  justice  of  the  cause 
espoused,  and  a  deep  conviction  that  "what 
ought  to  be,  will  be." 

I  commend  the  wisdom  of  my  friend.  Dr. 
Louis  Albert  Banks,  in  once  more  opening  the 
Hanson  Place  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  for 
a  whole  week,  and  giving  his  people  a  series 
of  able  discourses  upon  different  phases  of 
this  great  problem.  His  example  is  worthy 
of  imitation  by  every  pastor  in  the  land.  I 
am  glad  these  lectures  are  to  go  out  in  printed 
form,  and  trust  they  will  be  read  by  thousands 
who  were  unable  to  hear  them. 


New  York,  May  i,  1896. 


SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND 
JERICHO. 


THE  VALUE  OF  THE  TOTAL  ABSTI- 
NENCE PLEDGE. 

I  AM  convinced  that  our  modern  temperance 
work  as   a  whole   is   weak   at   one   important 
point.     While  we  have  been  greatly  strength- 
ened   by  the   teaching  of  the  Sunday-school, 
and  in  increased  attention  paid  to  temperance 
in   the  public  school   and   college,   there  has, 
I  think,  been  a  letting-up  in  the  public  church 
service  and  on  the  lecture  platform  of  the  agi- 
tation  which    had    for    its    great   purpose   the 
education  of  the  individual  upon  the  question 
of  the  personal  danger  from  strong  drink,  and 
the  necessity  of  definite  and  avowed  total  ab- 
stinence from  intoxicating   liquors.     "Eternal 
vigilance    is   the  price  of   liberty."     There   is 
no  place  in  the  world  where  this  is  truer  than 

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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


in  our  effort  to  save  the  youth  of  our  land 
from  falling  into  the  cruel  bondage  of  strong 
drink.  We  need  to  constantly  bear  in  mind 
that  every  man  in  this  nation  who  holds  a 
liquor  license  is  specially  interested  financially 
in  increasing  the  number  of  people  who  drink 
liquors.  In  this  city  of  Brooklyn  alone  there 
is  an  army  of  nearly  five  thousand  men  who 
have  invested  money  in  liquor  saloons,  and 
who,  with  their  much  larger  army  of  bar- 
tenders, have  a  personal  stake  in  making  young 
men  believe  that  the  moderate  use  of  strong 
drink  is  beneficial,  and  that  the  dangers  so 
often  mentioned  by  the  pulpit  and  by  temper- 
ance speakers  are  imaginary.  Not  only  so, 
but  a  large  portion  of  the  daily  press — in- 
fluenced, no  doubt,  in  no  small  degree  by  the 
immense  power  of  the  advertising  patronage 
of  brewers,  distillers,  and  saloon-keepers  ap- 
plied to  the  money  nerve  in  the  counting- 
room  —  throws  its  influence  on  the  side  of 
dangerous  drinking  customs. 

These  considerations,  and  others  that  I 
might  mention,  make  it  highly  important  that 
we  should   constantly  keep  before  the  minds 


THE    VALUE   OF   TOTAL   ABSTINENCE.      1 3 


of  the  people  the  deadly  effects  of  strong 
drink,  and  seek  to  win  the  allegiance  of  the 
young  and  of  the  tempted  to  the  only  really 
safe  course  —  that  of  total  abstinence  from 
everything  that  can  intoxicate. 

There  has  been  no  time  in  the  history  of 
the  world  when  the  disaster  and  desolation 
brought  about  by  the  liquor  traffic  —  not  only 
in  its  effects  upon  the  municipal  and  politi- 
cal life  of  the  people,  but  in  its  cruel  blight- 
ing of  individual  homes  and  lives  —  were 
more  terrible  than  to-day.  A  few  weeks  ago 
the  New  York  Herald  gave  a  ghastly  and 
gruesome  description  of  a  new  saloon  opened 
up  in  the  city  of  New  York,  which  was 
given  by  its  owner  the  strangely  suggestive 
and  appropriate  name  of  the  "  Wine  Shop  of 
Death."  A  large  reception  was  given,  which 
was  attended  by  many  members  of  the  theat- 
rical profession.  On  entering  the  first  cham- 
ber, which  is  vaulted,  the  eye  falls  in  the  dim 
light  on  coffins  which  form  tables.  Coffins 
are  on  all  sides  ;  and  the  walls  are  hung  with 
black  drapery  with  narrow  white  borders,  or- 
namented with  skulls  and  cross-bones,  with  a 


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grisly  skeleton  here  and  there.  This  chamber 
is  called  the  Restaurant  of  Death.  Through 
a  hole  in  the  wall  each  individual  may  see 
an  upright  coffin,  and  a  reflection  of  his  own 
person  ;  and  at  intervals,  by  a  curious  ma- 
nipulation of  lights  behind  the  canvas,  all 
figures   are   turned   into  skeletons. 

Alas,  for  the  awful  and  horrible  background 
of  truth  for  all  this  daring  and  mocking  play  ! 
How  many  young  men  go  into  saloons  who, 
if  the  mist  could  only  be  cleared  away  from 
their  eyes,  would  see  coffins  on  the  shelves 
where  the  liquor  bottles  rest ;  and  if  they 
could  only  look  through  a  little  hole  in  the 
wall  into  the  future  for  a  few  years,  would  see 
their  strong  and  healthy  physical  manhood, 
and  their  self-respecting  and  respectable  manly 
character,  shriveled  into  a  skeleton  of  their 
former  beauty  and  strength  !  If  I  could 
summon  before  you  all  the  skeletons  of  that 
sort  that  have  been  produced  by  the  saloons 
of  Brooklyn  during  the  past  year,  it  would 
be  a  sight  so  terrible  that  you  would  never 
forget  it. 

Less    than   two    months   ago,  right    here  in 


THE    VALUE   OF   TOTAL   ABSTINENCE.       1 5 


Brooklyn,  a  young  man  got  drunk  one  Sun- 
day with  liquor  bought  from  the  neighboring 
saloon,  which  stood  open  because  the  mayor 
and  the  police  authorities  neglected  to  keep 
their  oath  of  office.  For  the  fourth  time 
that  day  he  came  in  with  his  demijohn,  and, 
after  a  fight  with  a  neighbor,  went  in  where 
his  mother  was  and  shut  the  door.  Soon  the 
people  up-stairs  heard  above  the  angry  growls 
of  the  drunken  son  the  pleading  voice  of  the 
poor  old  mother,  "  O  Mike,  don't  do  it  !  " 
Then  there  was  a  shot,  and  they  heard  some- 
thing fall.  Then  there  was  another  shot. 
The  people  ran  down-stairs,  and  tried  to  push 
the  door  open.  There  was  something  in  the 
way.  It  was  the  body  of  the  mother.  She 
was  lying  on  her  side  with  her  feet  toward 
the  door.  They  were  doubled  under  her,  and 
her  hand  was  raised  to  a  bullet  wound  in 
her  head.  About  six  feet  away  lay  Michael, 
flat  on  his  back,  with  a  bullet  wound  in  his 
cheek.  Both  bullets  had  found  their  way  to 
the  brain,  and  death  had  come  instantly. 

The  dead  man's  brother  pushed  his  way  into 
tiie   room.      He    kneeled    down,  and    gathered 


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his   mother  in   his    arms.     The  blood  flowing 
from  her  neck  stained  his  shirt. 

"  O  mother  !  my  dear  mother,  speak  to 
me,  speak  to  me  ! "  he  cried,  clutching  her 
tightly  to  his  breast. 

When  he  saw  that  she  was  dead  he  rose  to 
his  feet,  and  moved  to  the  side  of  his  brother. 
•'  You  drunken  loafer ! "  he  said,  and  he  kicked 
the  body  with  all  his  might.  "  You  swine, 
to  kill  the  mother  that  bore  you  !  " 

His  excitement  and  indignation  were  so 
great  that  the  people  present  feared  he  would 
try  to  tear  the  body  to  pieces,  and  they 
drew  him  away. 

When  the  undertaker  came,  the  living 
brother  said,  "  I  want  only  my  mother  cared 
for.  Take  this  loafer  away,"  and  he  kicked 
the  body  again.  •*  I  have  no  money  to  bury 
a  thing  like  him.  Take  him  to  the  morgue, 
and  bury  him  with  the  paupers,  where  he 
belongs." 

Could  there  be  a  more  horrible  scene  con- 
ceived by  the  wildest  imagination  }  But,  re- 
member, that  is  not  ancient  history ;  that 
is   no  fable   from  the   age  of  hobgoblins  and 


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ghosts  — it  is  a  true  picture  of  Brooklyn  home- 
life,  not  yet  two  months  old.  How  little  that 
mother  thought  when  she  fondled  both  these 
little  boys  in  her  arms,  loving  one  as  much 
as  the  other,  and  each  of  them  innocent  and 
pure,  that  the  day  would  come  when  one, 
transformed  into  a  demon,  should  take  away 
her  life,  and  the  other,  with  all  love  for  the 
brother  whom  he  had  loved  as  his  own  soul 
blighted  and  gone,  should  kick  his  dead  body 
in  loathing  and  disgust,  as  he  might  the  car- 
cass of  a  wild  beast.  How  different  would 
have  been  the  outcome  of  this  home  if  the 
boys  had  been  brought  up  total  abstainers, 
and  this  young  man,  Michael,  had  come  to 
his  manhood  a  pledged  and  intelligent  enemy 
of  all  intoxicants ! 

It  is  easy  to  predict  the  sad  fortune  of  a 
boy  who  begins  to  dally  with  strong  drink. 

The  Detroit  Free  Press  has  an  amusing  but 
suggestive  little  story  about  fortune-telling. 

A  man  was  having  his  fortune  told.  "  I 
see,"  said  the  "  seventh  daughter  of  the 
seventh  daughter,"  contracting  her  eyebrows, 
"  I  see  the  name  of  John," 


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"Yes,"   said   the   sitter,  indicating  that   he 
had  heard  the  name  before. 

"  The    name    seems   to   have   given   you    a 
great  deal  of  trouble." 

"  It  has." 

"  This  John  is  an  intimate  friend." 

"That's  so,"  he  said,  wonderingly. 

"And  often  leads  you  to  do  things  you  are 
sorry  for." 

"True;  every  word." 

"  His  influence  over  you  is  bad." 

"  Right  again." 

"But  you  will  soon  have  a  serious  quarrel, 
when  you  will  become  estranged." 

"I  am  glad  of  that.  Now  spell  out  his 
whole  name." 

The  fortune-teller  opened  one  eye,  and  care- 
fully studied  the  face  of  the  visitor.  Then 
she  wrote  some  cabalistic  message,  and  handed 
it  to  him  in  exchange  for  her  fee. 

"Do  not  read  it  until  you  are  at  home," 
she  said,  solemnly.     "  It  is  your  friend's  whole 


name. 


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When   he   reached    home    he    lit    the    gas 
and   gravely  examined   the  paper.     There  he 


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THE    VALUE   OF  TOTAL  ABSTINENCE,      19 

read,  in   picket-fence  characters,  the  name  of 
his  friend  :  "  Demi-John." 

I  hope  these  boys  will  never  make  a  friend 
of  him.  He  always  gets  his  associates  into 
trouble. 

Many  years  ago  Hon.  Neal  Dow,  who  is 
now  over  ninety  years  old,  and  is  known  as 
the  father  of  prohibition,  was  passing  down 
one  of  the  streets  of  Portland,  Me.,  when  he 
noticed  a  crowd  of  people,  among  whom  was 
the  mayor  of  the  city.  In  the  center  of  the 
group  was  a  country  lad,  crying.  The  lad 
had  been  imposed  upon  by  a  noted  horse 
jockey  of  the  town,  who  had  got  the  boy 
drunk,  and  then  induced  him  to  swap  the 
horse  he  had  driven  into  town  for  an  old  plug. 

Upon  hearing  his  story,  telling  the  boy 
to  follow  him  and  lead  the  jockey's  horse, 
Mr.  Dow  led  the  way  to  the  latter's  stable! 
nearly  a  mile  distant.  Not  finding  the  jockey 
in,  the  old  horse  was  turned  into  the  stable; 
and  Mr.  Dow,  with  the  country  lad  still  fol- 
lowing, turned  to  go  down-town  again.  On 
the  way  they  met  the  jockey,  driving  in  a 
wagon  to  which  the  lad's  horse  was  attached. 


20  SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


"That's  my  horse,"  said  the  boy. 

Mr.  Dow  stepped  into  the  road,  took  the 
horse  by  the  bridle,  and  calling  to  one  of  his 
own  employees,  who  happened  to  be  passing 
at  the  time,  told  him  to  unharness  the  horse, 
which  he  did,  the  irate  jockey  swearing  the 
while  like  a  trooper,  and  threatening  to  take 
the  law  on  Mr.  Dow,  who  replied,  — 

"You  will  always  know  where  to  find 
me." 

Then  telling  the  boy  to  take  the  horse,  he 
started  to  lead  the  way  down-town,  where  the 
lad's  wagon  had  been  left. 

"Look  a-here,"  said  the  jockey,  as  they 
went,   "what  am  I  to  do  with  my  wagon.?" 

"  Do  what  you  like,"  said  Mr.  Dow.  "  It 
is  nothing  to  me." 

As  may  be  expected,  the  country  lad  was 
full  of  joy  and  profuse  with  thanks.  When 
he  had  harnessed  his  horse,  he  said  to  Mr. 
Dow,  — 

Now,  what  can  I  do  for  you.?" 
Promise  me  not  to  drink  any  more."     And 
the  boy  did  so. 

Some  three  years  afterward  Mr.  Dow  was 


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THE    VALUE   OF  TOTAL  ABSTINENCE,      21 

Stopped  by  a  countryman  in  the  streets,  who, 
with  mouth  stretched  on  a  broad  grin,  said, 
pointing  to  a  horse,  "There  he  is.  I  hain't 
drunk  no  more." 

It  proved  to  be  the  boy  for  whom  Mr. 
Dow  had  recovered  the  horse  some  years 
before. 

Any  boy  that  wants  a  healthy  body,  a  clear 
head,  and  a  good  reputation  will  do  well  to 
take  the  temperance  pledge  now,  at  the  very 
beginning  of  his  career.  Frances  E.  Willard 
says  that  the  Magna  Charta  of  the  temperance 
reform  is  the  teetotal  pledge.  A  champion 
bicyclist  the  other  day,  a  bright  young  fellow 
from  Iowa,  who  did  a  flying  mile  in  1.56, 
when  asked  by  a  reporter  what  advice  he  had 
to  give  young  men  who  wished  to  become 
athletes,  replied,  "Tell  them  never  to  touch 
alcoholic  liquors,  never  to  touch  tobacco,  eat 
only  the  simplest  food,  and  to  sleep  eight 
hours  in  every  twenty-four."  How  much  bet- 
ter it  is  for  a  boy  or  a  young  man  to  take  the 
pledge  as  a  guaranty  of  safety  and  a  means 
of  prevention  against  danger  than  to  wait  until 
it  is  like  a  plank  which  is  thrown  to  a  drown- 


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22  SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 

ing  man  !  John  B.  Gough  once  said,  "  If  the 
pledge  had  been  offered  me  when  I  was  a  boy 
in  Sabbath-school  I  should  have  been  spared 
those  seven  dreadful  years." 

Our  good  neighbor,  Dr.  Theodore  L.  Cuy- 
ler,  in  a  letter  to  young  preachers  in  The 
Golden  Rule,  gives  some  advice  which  is  good 
for  young  men  in  all  professions.  "Take  a 
total  abstinence  pledge,"  says  this  heroic  vet- 
eran of  many  a  good  cause,  "at  the  very  start, 
to  refrain  from  all  sorts  of  alcoholic  stimulants 
and  all  sorts  of  indigestible  food.  A  minister 
sometimes  calls  in  as  an  ally  what  proves  to 
be  a  deadly  enemy.  Long  years  ago,  the  elo- 
quent Dr.  K fell  into  sad  inebriation  from 

having  used  port  wine  to  enable  him,  as  he 
honestly  said,  'to  preach  with  more  power.' 
He  repented  in  dust  and  ashes.  .  .  .  Famous 
old  Dr.  Emmons,  who  died  at  ninetv-five,  used 
to  drink  his  coffee  'one-half  milk  and  the 
other  half  sugar;*  but  when  I  saw  the  British 
Prime  Minister,  Lord  Beaconsfield,  trembling 
like  an  aspen  leaf,  I  was  not  surprised  that 
his  wife  said,  'My  husband  likes  his  coffee 
as  black  as  ink  and  as  hot  as  Topbet.*     God's 


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prohibitory  law  against  the  use  of  exciting 
stimulants  appears,  in  that  they  are  all  armed 
with  a  whip  of  scorpions." 

There  is  an  oft-quoted  incident  in  the  life 
of  Henry  Wilson,  one  of  the  noblest  of  all 
the  senators  and  vice-presidents  the  United 
States  has  ever  had,  that  is  well  worth  keep- 
ing immortal  for  every  new  generation  of 
young  men.  After  Mr.  Wilson's  first  election 
to  the  United  States  Senate,  he  gave  his 
friends  a  dinner.  The  table  was  set  with 
not  one  wine-glass  upon  it.  "  Where  are  the 
glasses } "  asked  several  of  the  guests  mer- 
rily. "  Gentlemen,"  said  Mr.  Wilson,  "  you 
know  my  friendship  for  you  and  my  obliga- 
tions to  you.  Great  as  they  are,  they  are  not 
great  enough  to  make  me  forget  *  the  rock 
whence  I  was  hewn  and  the  pit  whence  I  was 
digged.*  Some  of  you  know  how  the  curse 
of  intemperance  overshadowed  my  youth. 
That  I  might  escape  I  fled  from  my  early 
surroundings.  For  what  I  am,  I  am  indebted, 
under  God,  to  my  temperance  vow  and  my 
adherence  to  it.  Call  for  what  you  want  to 
eat,  and  if  this  hotel  can  provide  it,  it  shall 


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be  forthcoming;  but  wines  and  liquors  cannot 
come  to  this  table  with  my  consent,  because 
I  will  not  spread  in  the  path  of  another  the 
snare  from  which  I  escaped."  Three  rousing 
cheers  showed  the  brave  senator  that  men 
admire  the  man  who  has  the  courage  of  his 
convictions. 

I  have  no  doubt  that  I  speak  to  some  who 
stand    in  great   danger   in   relation   to  strong 
drink.     You  are  not  yet  a  drunkard,  but  you 
are  beginning  to   accustom  yourself   to  occa- 
sional  drinking,  and  you  are  coming   to   like 
the  taste  of  the  liquor  that  excites  your  im- 
agination and   for  the  hour  stirs  your   blood. 
I  beg  of  you  to  listen  to  me.     Do  not  shrink 
into  yourself,  and  say,  "  I  am  in  no  danger  of 
becoming  a   drunkard.      I   take  a  glass   now 
and  then,  but   I   have  power  of   will   enough 
to  stop  when  I  see  that   it  is  getting  control 
of  me."     Alas,  that  is  just  when  you  will  not 
stop!     Tens  of  thousands  of  men   who   have 
crawled  their  loathsome  way  through  the  gut- 
ter into  a  drunkard's  grave  have  talked   just 
like  you.     When  you  look  this  matter  square 
in  the  face  you  know  that  you  are  in  danger. 


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THE    VALUE   OF  TOTAL   ABSTINENCE.       2$ 

If   any   other  man   was   doing  what  you  are 
doing  you  would   say  he  was   in  great   peril. 
The  fact  is,   that   if   you  are  drinking  strong 
drink  at   all,   you  are  drinking  too  much  for 
safety,  and  down  in  the  honest  places  of  your 
heart  you    know  it.      Have  you    taken    into 
proper  consideration    the    almost   omnipotent 
power  of  an  evil  habit  ?     If  you  do  not  stop 
now,  it  will  not  be  long  before  you  will  feel 
the  tightening  of  its  folds  about  you  as  relent- 
lessly as   the  death-grip   of  a  boa-constrictor. 
Every  poor  drunkard  who  is  staggering  down 
his   despairing  way  to  a  drunkard's   hell  once 
stood  exactly  where  you  stand  to-night.     You 
are  treading  in  the  same  path  where  he  once 
walked.     The  pulpit  warned   him,  his   friends 
pleaded  with  him,  but  he  laughed  and  shrugged 
his   shoulders  as   you   do  now.     He  went   on 
and  was  ruined.     What  do  you  propose  to  do.? 
Go  on  as  he  did,  or  stop  here  and   now,  and 
by  the  help  of  God   become  a  total  abstainer 
from   the   drink   that   has   led   more   souls   to 
death,    and   afterward   mocked   them   in   their 
torment,  than  any  other  sin   that   has  cursed 
the  race  ? 


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26  SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 

The  sobriety  of  the  community  is  a  matter 
of  the  gravest  importance  to  every  one  of  us. 
And  no  one  who  intelligently  considers  the 
question  can  say,  "It  is  a  matter  in  which  I 
have  no  interest." 


•'"Tis  nothing  to  me,'  the  beauty  said, 
With  a  careless  toss  of  her  pretty  head; 
'The  man  is  weak  who  can't  refrain 
From  the  cup  you  say  is  fraught  with  pain.' 
It  was  something  to  her  in  after  years, 
When  her  eyes  were  drenched  with  burning  tears, 
And  she  watched,  in  lonely  grief  and  dread, 
And  started  to  hear  a  staggering  tread. 

♦It's  nothing  to  me,'  the  mother  said; 

*  I  have  no  fear  that  my  boy  will  tread 
The  downward  path  of  sin  and  shame. 
And  crush  my  heart  and  darken  my  name.' 
It  was  something  to  her  when  her  only  son 
From  the  path  of  life  was  early  won, 
And  madly  quaffed  of  the  flowing  bowl. 
Then  —  a  ruined  body  and  shipwrecked  soul. 

•It's  nothing  to  me,'  the  merchant  said. 
As  over  the  ledger  he  bent  his  head; 

'I'm  busy  to-day  with  tare  and  tret; 
I  have  no  time  to  fume  and  fret.' 
It  was  something  to  him  when  over  the  wire 
A  message  came  from  a  funeral  pyre  — 
A  drunken  conductor  had  wrecked  the  train  — 
His  wife  and  child  were  among  the  slain. 


THE    VALUE   OF  TOTAL  ABSTINENCE      2^ 

•It's  nothing  to  me,'  the  young  man  cried; 
In  his  eye  was  a  flash  of  scorn  and  pride. 

*I  heed  not  the  dreadful  things  you  tell; 
I  can  rule  myself,  I  know  full  well !  ' 
'Twas  something  to  him  when  in  prison  he  lay, 
The  victim  of  drink,  life  ebbing  away, 
As  he  thought  of  his  wretched  child  and  wife 
And  the  mournful  wreck  of  his  wasted  life. 

Is  it  nothing  to  us  who  idly  sleep 
While  the  cohorts  of  death  their  vigils  keep, 
Alluring  the  young  and  thoughtless  in 
To  grind  in  their  midst  a  grist  of  sin? 
It  is  something  for  us,  for  us  all,  to  stand 
And  clasp  bv  faith  our  Saviour's  hand; 
Learn  to  labor,  live,  and  fight 
.  On  the  side  of  God  and  changeless  right. " 


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SEEKING  FOR  THE  BLACK  SHEEP. 

At  a  revival  meeting  in  the  State  of  Ken- 
tucky a  few  weeks  ago,  Rev.  George  Stuart,  an 
earnest  Methodist  evangelist,  was  in  the  midst 
of  his  sermon  one  evening,  when  a  poor  Irish 
woman,  half-crazed  with  sorrow,  came  down 
the  aisle,  crying  out,  **  Mr.  Stuart !  Mr.  Stuart ! 
the  saloon  has  got  my  boy ! "  The  kind- 
hearted  man  was  so  deeply  moved  that  for  a 
moment  he  was  unable  to  respond.  Finally  he 
said,  "  How  many  women  in  this  great  audi- 
ence can  hold  up  their  hands  with  this  poor 
woman  } "  Hands  went  up  all  over  the  room, 
showing  that  there  were  many  other  mothers 
there  who  were  having  the  same  sad  experi- 
ence. Some  of  the  hands  wore  white  gloves. 
Some  were  white,  tender  hands,  while  some 
were  hard  and  toil-worn  hands.  Mr.  Stuart 
said,  "Men  of  Kentucky,  I  don't  know  what 
kind  of  stuff  you  are  made  of,  but  I  am  that 
kind  of  stuff  to  stand  by  the  side  of  these  sad 


SEEKING  FOR    THE  BLACK  SHEEP.        29 

and  stricken  women,  with  their  uplifted  hands, 
and  help  them  save  their  boys  from  the 
clutches  of  the  dreadful  saloon."  The  great 
audience  was  so  aroused  to  indignation  and 
sympathy  by  the  woman's  wail  and  the  preach- 
er's earnest  appeal,  that  they  stood  up  and 
cheered  again  and  again. 

Every  community  where  intoxicating  drinks 
are  sold  has  its  wrecked  and  ruined  men  and 
women  and  children,  whose  pitiful   condition 
appeals  to  us  to  give  our  earnest  and  devoted 
efforts  to  their  rescue.     This  wreckage  of  hu- 
man life  and  happiness  is  the  most  cruel  work 
of   the   saloon.     The  ruin  which   it  brings  to 
a  man's  business  prosperity,  and  the  poverty 
which  it  so  often  causes,  are  bad  enough ;  but 
yet  its  disastrous  influence  on  the  community 
would  be  very  slight  compared  to  what  it  really 
is,  if  its  destruction  stopped  at  a  man's  prop- 
erty.    The  awful  thing  about  it  is  that  it  de- 
stroys the  man  himself.     The  eloquent  W.  H. 
H.  Murray,  who  once  charmed  great  audiences 
in  Park  Street  Church,  Boston,  once  said  to 
his  throng  of  listeners  that   "tempests  might 
sweep  every  ship  from  the  seas,  and  in  twelve 


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months  those  seas  would  be  as  white  as  ever 
with  sails.  Fires  can  consume  your  store- 
houses, melt  your  iron  blocks,  and  granulate, 
by  their  excessive  heat,  your  structures  of 
stone;  and  yet  out  of  the  ashes  shall  rise  new 
walls,  the  melted  iron  be  replaced,  the  crum- 
bling granite  be  restored,  and  commerce  rejoice 
with  more  adequate  equipment  than  before  the 
destruction  came.  But  when  a  man  is  wrecked 
—  when  the  pillars  of  his  virtue  are  cast  down 
and  broken  into  fragments ;  when  the  torch 
of  inflammable  appetite  has  kindled  flames 
within  his  bosom  which  feed  on  the  strength 
and  integrity  of  his  soul  —  a  ruin  has  been 
wrought  greater  than  the  winds  make  when 
they  pile  up  wrecks,  greater  than  fire  makes 
when  it  reduces  warehouses  to  ashes.  To 
bring  against  drinking  habits  the  charge  that 
they  destroy  not  only  property,  but  men,  is  to 
send  forth  into  the  air  a  warning  against  their 
formation  solemn  enough  even  to  make  idiots 
look  grave.  A  ruined  man  !  A  man  who  has 
been  great,  has  been  wealthy,  has  been  good, 
has  held  and  administered  large  trusts  ;  a  man 
with  an  immortal  soul,  with  possibilities  in  his 


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nature  which  only  eternity  could  realize  —  such 
a  man,  ruined,  in  estate,  in  mind,  in  soul ! 
Bring  him  to  me!"  cried  the  eloquent  Murray. 
"  Bring  him  to  me,  with  or  without  his  coffin, 
and  I  will  take  the  wreck  and  remnant  of  what 
was  once  a  glorious  being,  out  to  the  center  of 
that  Common,  and  I  will  call  the  city  together ; 
I  will  call  to  the  governor  f ''  the  State;  I  will 
call  to  all  who  love  Boston  and  the  Common- 
wealth, high  and  low,  and  say,  *  Come,  gather 
round  me  here,  and  let  us  mourn  a  loss  greater 
than  if  our  property  had  all  been  swept  into 
the  center  of  the  sea  —  the  loss  of  a  man!' 
Yea,  and  with  you  all  gathered  round  me  there, 
thousands  of  us,  so  that  Boston  Common 
would  not  hold  another  human  form,  it  would 
be  allowable  for  me,  voicing  your  sense  of  loss, 
to  call  on  the  angels,  and  the  mercy  of  the 
great  God,  to  mourn  with  us  over  the  loss  of 
what  earth  cannot  give,  nor  heaven  with  all  its 
power  of  ministration  restore  —  the  loss  of  a 
soul.  For  never  is  the  sky  so  blue,  never  is 
the  sun  so  bright,  never  are  the  clouds  so 
dense  above  me,  that  I  cannot  see,  written  in 
gigantic  letters,  reaching  from  pole  to  pole,  the 


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dreadful  sentence  :  *  No  drunkard  shall  inherit 
the  kingdom  of  God.'  " 

I  suppose  it  is  not  possible  for  any  man  who 
has  always  lived  a  sober  life  to  conceive  the 
misery  and  despair  that  come  sometimes  to  a 
poor  drunkard  who  has  touched  the  depths  of 
that  awful  bondage,  and  never  quite  gets  over 
the  horror  of  his  fear  that  he  may  sink  again 
into  that  slimy  ooze.  After  John  B.  Gough 
was  dead  his  pastor  read  at  a  public  meeting  a 
prayer  which  they  found  written  in  his  diary, 
and  which,  during  Mr.  Gough's  life,  was  per- 
haps never  read  by  any  eyes  but  his  own. 
Every  sentence  is  suggestive  of  how  his  great 
soul  was  haunted  by  those  seven  terrible  years 
of  drunkenness.  This  is  the  prayer  :  "  Al- 
mighty God,  if  it  be  thy  will  that  man  should 
suffer,  whatever  seemeth  good  in  thy  sight, 
impose  upon  me.  Let  the  bread  of  sorrow  be 
given  me  to  eat.  Take  from  me  the  friends  of 
my  confidence.  Let  the  cold  hut  of  poverty 
be  my  dwelling-place,  and  the  scourging  hand 
of  disease  inflict  its  painful  torments.  Let  me 
sow  in  the  whirlwind,  and  reap  in  the  storm. 
Let  those  have  me  in  derision  who  are  younger 


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than  I.  Let  the  passing  away  of  my  welfare 
be  like  the  fleeting  of  a  cloud,  and  the  shouts 
of  my  enemies  like  the  rushing  of  waters. 
When  I  anticipate  good,  let  evil  annoy  me. 
When  I  look  for  light,  let  darkness  be  upon 
me.  Let  the  terrors  of  death  be  ever  before 
me.  Do  all  this,  but  save  me,  merciful  God, 
save  me  from  the  fate  of  a  drunkard ! " 

Alas !  that  there  should  be  so  many  of  our 
brothers  and  sisters  in  such  sorrow,  and  we  so 
often  indifferent  about  reaching  out  to  them 
the  hand  of  help.     There  is  no  work  in  this 
world   more   blessed   than   that  which   brings 
us  into  fellowship  with  Jesus  Christ  in  seek- 
ing after  the    lost,   and   rescuing    those   who 
will    miserably   perish    but   for  our   aid.      Dr. 
Burrell  relates  that  when  he  was  a  lad  in  a 
frontier   town   he   saw,  one  morning,  a  dram- 
shop   burning    down.      The    fire    had    gotten 
headway   before    the    old    hand-engines   were 
brought   into  play ;   and  when   he,  with  other 
boys,    got    to    the   fire,    it    did    not    seem   to 
them   that   there  was  any  hope  for  anybody 
that  was   in  there.     But   suddenly  the  smoke 
lifted    a    little,    and    away    in    the    distance, 


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at  the  back  of  the  dram-shop,  they  could 
sec  a  man  lying  on  the  floor.  Then  one 
of  the  volunteer  firemen  determined  to  go  in 
and  try  to  save  him.  He  put  a  wet  towel 
around  his  mouth  and  nostrils,  and  got  down 
upon  his  hands  and  knees,  and  crawled  under 
the  smoke ;  and  they  watched  him  until  he 
reached  the  rear  of  the  wretched  drinking- 
den,  and  saw  him  put  his  arm  around  the  poor 
insensible  wretch  and  drag  him  toward  the 
door,  until  at  last  he  reached  the  threshold, 
where  he  dropped  his  burden  and  fell  back 
in  a  swoon.  The  village  rang  with  shouts 
and  hurrahs  for  him,  and  he  was  the  hero 
of  the  town.  And  I  am  sure  that  in  heaven, 
where  they  ring  all  the  joy-bells  over  every 
repenting  sinner,  there  will  be  welcome  and 
victory  for  the  men  and  the  women  who, 
denying  themselves,  give  up  their  lives  to 
the  snatching  of  the  brands  from  the  burn- 
ing. 

The  rescuing  of  an  individual  often  means 
a  great  deal  more  than  that  simply.  None  of 
us  stand  alone.  No  man  can  rise  to  great- 
ness without  drawing  other  lives  higher  than 


S£EA-/Ara  I-OR   THE  BLACK  SHEEP.        35 

they  would  have  been  without  his  aspiration 
and    noble    struggle    and    success.     On    the 
other  hand,  it  is  true   that   no   man   can   be 
degraded  and  not  draw  others  down  with  him 
into  the  darkness  of  his   sorrow  and  defeat 
And  often  it  is  true  that  in   rescuing  an  in- 
dividual one  rescues  a  family  and  a  home  as 
well.     One  of  the  bitterest  ingredients  in  the 
misery  of  a  drunkards  life  is  that  he  blights 
and  destroys  innocent  ones  who  suffer  for^his 
misdoings. 

In  a  small  town  there  lived  a  little  family, 
the    husband    and   father  of   which  died   in  a 
drunken    spree.      About    a    week    after    the 
father's    death    the    heart-broken   mother   and 
widow,  who  took    in  washing  and   ironing   to 
get    food    for    her    children,   asked    her    little 
boy,    a   bright   little   fellow   six  years   old,   to 
go    into    the  woodshed    and    get    some  wood 
to  replenish  her  fire.     The  little  fellow's  lips 
quivered,  and  he  said  he  did  not  want  to  go. 
When   his   mother  pressed   him  for  the   rea 
son,   he   said,   "  I   don't   want   to  go   because 
father's  boots  hang  up  there,  and  when  I  see 
them  they  look  like  they  wanted  to  kick  me  " 


36 


SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


I 


Think  of  the  misery  behind  a  statement  like 
that  from  the  lips  of  a  little  child  ! 

Dr.  John  Hall,  in  an  article  entitled  "  Some- 
thing to  Cry  Over,"  relates  how  he  stood  one 
day  on  a  boat  in  New  York  Harbor.  Not  far 
off  was  a  well-dressed  but  tipsy  young  man. 
Beside  the  doctor  was  a  plainly  dressed  man. 
When  Di.  Hall  saw  tV»e  people  laughing  at 
the  drunkard,  he  saw  in  his  neighbor's  eyes 
such  a  sad,  pitying  look,  that  he  said  to  him, 
"  They  should  hardly  laugh  at  him."  The 
man  replied,  "  It  is  a  thing  to  cry  over." 
Then  he  told  Dr.  Hall  of  his  own  wife,  who 
took  to  drink  in  Scotland,  and  who  promised 
to  reform  if  he  would  come  to  this  country, 
but  did  not,  and  died  of  drunkenness ;  and 
when  the  good  doctor  hoped  he  had  comfort 
in  his  children,  he  said,  "  One,  the  second, 
is ;  she  is  a  good  child.  The  eldest  is  not 
steady.  I  can  do  nothing  with  her ;  and  the 
youngest  can't  be  kept  from  drink.  I  have 
sold  my  place,  and  am  going  to  a  town  in 
the  West  where  I  am  told  no  liquor  can  be 
had,  to  tiy  and  save  him."  Surely  one  in 
coming   close  to  an   incident   like  that  feels 


I, 


SEEKING  FOR    THE  BLACK  SHEEP.        3; 

like  crying  out  for  total  abstinence  societies, 
tracts,  books,  sermons,  prohibitory  laws  — any- 
thing that  will  rescue  these  poor  innocent 
victims,  and  stop  this  "cruel  murder  of  home- 
love,  of  men,  of  women,  of  little  children, 
of  hope,  of  peace,  of  lost  souls." 

In  our  efforts  to  rescue  men  from  the  power 
of  the  saloon  we  need  to  take  into  considera- 
tion more  earnestly  than  we  ever  have  yet  the 
way  the  saloon  is  intrenched   in   the  craving 
of  multitudes  of  men  who  do  not  have  com- 
fortable   homes,   and    thousands   who   do   not 
have  homes  at   all,  for  some  place  to   spend 
their   evenings   that   is   warm   and   light,   and 
has  at   least  a  show  of   sympathy  and   socia- 
bility.     I  agree  with  Rev.  Thomas  Dixon  that 
I  have  yet  to  hear  of  the  everyday  young  man 
who  buys  a  keg  of   beer  or  whisky,  takes  it 
up  to  his  cheerless  hall-room,  sits  down  over 
it,  and  drinks  merely  for  the  sake  of  drinking. 
And   I  agree  with   him   in  his  graphic  stated 
ment   of    the   case   in    "The   Saloon   Social," 
that  multitudes  of  men  are  first  attracted  to 
the  saloon  because  th  ^y  are  lonely,  and  they 
go  to  the  devil  because,  for  the  time  beincr. 


.'-JU.L.ILJ. 


38  SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 

there  does  not  seem  to  them  to  be  any  other 
place  specially  desiring  them.     They  have  the 
natural  longing  for  beautiful  things;  and  the 
saloon  appeals  in  its  polished  wood  and  ham- 
mered  brass,    flashing  mirrors,  beautiful  fres- 
coes, and   brilliant   lights,  to  this  element   of 
their    nature.       Multitudes    are    attracted    to 
these   brilliant   bar-rooms   who   would   not   go 
near    them    if    they    were    dingy    and    dark. 
There   is   one   bar-room   in   the   city   of   New 
York  where  the  decorations  alone  cost  forty 
thousand  dollars.     The  coloring  of  this  room 
is   delicate   and   harmonious,   and   if  a  visitor 
has  any  eye  for  beauty  his  first  sensations  on 
entering  are  most  pleasing.     The  floors  are  of 
the  finest  Italian  marble,  and  the  ceilings  are 
the  work  of   an  artist.     The  bar   itself   is  of 
African  marble,  with  Mexican  onyx  panels  and 
heavy   brass   trimmings.      The  cut-glass   ware 
and  everything  connected  with  the  fixtures  of 
the  place  are  elegant  to  the  last  degree.     Five 
hundred  electric  lights,  and  more,  set  in  floral 
bulbs  and  cluster^  of  brilliancy,  make  the  place 
brighter  than   day,  and  beautiful   as   a  fairy- 
land.     It   is  against   liquor  saloons   that  are 


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SEEKING  FOR    THE  BLACK  SHEEP.        39 

thus  intrenched  in  wealth  and   beauty,  which 
extend  to  every  young  man  who  crosses  the 
threshold  the  heartiest  welcome  to  easy-chairs 
and  illustrated  papers  and  possibilities  for  con- 
versation, that  we  are  to  contend  in  our  efforts 
to  rescue   the  homeless   and   the  tempted.     I 
fear  Mr.  Dixon's  comparison  is,  on  the  whole, 
very  fairly  drawn  when  he  says,   "Only  sup- 
pose it  were  as  easy  for  a  young  man  to  go 
to  the  good  as  it  is  for  him  to  go  to  the  devil 
in   New  York!     Ten  thousand   saloons   stand 
open,  with  beauty  and   good  cheer  and  com- 
panionship for  welcome,  every  day  and  every 
night   in    the   year.      Five   hundred   churches 
stand    silent    and    gloomy,    used   only   as   the 
background  for  undertakers'  signs,  save  for  a 
few  hours  on   Sunday  and  one  or  two  hours 
in  the  week.     Only  a  few  steps  from  the  Ven- 
dome   Caf6    I    passed    St.    Luke's    Methodist 
Church.     It  was  Saturday  night.     The  church 
was   locked    and    barred,    and,   lest    any   man 
should  draw  nigh,  a  heavy  iron  picket   fence 
bristled  against  the  sidewalk.     Through  eight 
clear  windows  on  the  side,   and   two   on   the 
front,  a  flood  of  light  poured  from  the  caf^,  and 


I   I!: 


i  |;: 


I 


40 


SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


invited  the  passing  stranger  to  come  and  make 
himself  at  home !  The  saloon  is  a  social  in- 
stitution. Thousands  of  men  go  there  simply 
because  it  is  open  and  they  are  welcome. 
They  long  for  companionship,  and  there  they 
find  it.  Could  they  find  fellowship  under  as 
fair  conditions  without  the  drink,  at  least  one- 
half  of  them  would  prefer  it.  Men  become 
drunkards  often  under  protest." 

We  cannot  expect  to  rescue  from  these 
deadly  snares  men  who  are  thus  fascinated 
and  tempted  without  bringing  to  our  efforts 
hearts  full  of  sympathy  and  kindness.  Chris- 
tian workers  often  need  to  have  the  great 
truth  emphasized  that  in  undertaking  to  rescue 
men  and  women  they  must  bring  to  their 
work  not  only  religious  devotions  but  abun- 
dant common  sense,  and,  above  all,  a  hearty 
sympathy  and  fellowship  that  make  it  possible 
for  them  to  put  themselves  into  association 
with  the  ones  they  would  rescue  without  any 
thought  of  patronizing  them,  but  in  the  spirit 
of  sharing  with  them  in  their  misery  and 
wretchedness  in  order  to  lift  them  out  of  it. 
Maud    Ballington   Booth,    in   a  recent  article 


SEEKING  FOR   THE  BLACK  SHEEP.       41 

in    Harper's     Weekly,    under    the    suggestive 
title  "The  Church  of  the  Black  Sheep,"  tells 
the  story  of  the  rescue  of  a  desperate  char- 
acter who  lived  in  a  small  town  in  California, 
and  had  made  himself  infamous  by  his  life  of 
drunken  outlawry.     He  was  part  Mexican  and 
part  Indian,  and,  though  yet  young,  had  been 
a  desperate  whisky-drinker  for  years.     Almost 
a  giant  in  stature,  and  with  proportionate  de- 
velopment of  muscle,  he  was  considered  most 
dangerous   in   his   fights,  and  was  a  constant 
cause  of  trouble  and  difficulty  to  the  police. 
One  evening  Mota,  as  he  was  called,  walked 
into  a   Salvation   Army  meeting  out  of   curi- 
osity.     The  audience  was  not  only  surprised, 
but  alarmed ;  but   it   in   no  wise  disconcerted 
the  captain,  who  was   a  young   girl.     She   at 
once  tried  to  show  to  him  a  kindly  interest. 
He  felt  that   he  was  welcome,  and   he  came 
again   and   again.      Though   densely   ignorant 
and   utterly  godless,  he  was   touched   by   the 
sincere  lives,  and  convinced  by  the  simple  but 
powerful  truths   he   heard  in   such  plain  and 
unvarnished   language.       He    was    converted, 
and  his  life  gave  evidence  of  the  sincerity  and 


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42  SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 

depth  of  the  work  accomplished.     The  captain 
naturally  watched   and  prayed  over   this  new 
convert   with   interest;   and    it    was   well  that 
she   did,  for  he  would  soon    have  been  over- 
thrown   but    for    her    wisdom    and    devotion. 
Mota  suffered  one   day  with   a   raging  tooth- 
ache, which  compelled  him  to  seek  out  a  den- 
tist.     The  man    tugged   away  for  a  while  at 
the  offending  tooth,   but  failed  to  get  it  out. 
The  pain  and  sensitiveness  of  the  nerves  were 
so   great   that   he   gave   up  the  attempt,   and 
ordered    Mota    to   get    a  glass    of   whisky   to 
nerve  him  for  another  effort.     The  poor  fellow 
at  once  refused ;  for  not  only  as  a  Salvationist 
was  it  prohibited  him,  but  he  knew  what  this 
step  would   mean   to   his   life.      The  dentist, 
however,   insisted   that   it  was  necessary,  and 
that  as  a  doctor  he  prescribed  it,  until  Mota 
yielded,  and  took  the  first  glass  that  he  had 
tasted   since   he  had   come   under   the   Salva- 
tion Army's  influence.     Again  the  dentist  at- 
tempted in  vain  to  extract  the  tooth.     Again 
he  ordered  a  glass  of  whisky  for  the  sufferer, 
who,  reluctantly,  and  hesitating  at  first  as  to 
the  right  or  wrong  of  it,  at  last  yielded.     As 


SEEKINC  FOR    THE  BLACK  SHEEP.       43 

he  put  it  in  his  own  words,  "  He  did  not  have 
to  tell   me   to  take  the  third  nor   the  fourth 
glass,    nor  all   that   followed   after   it."     The 
dreadful  craving  for  drink  had  returned,  and 
with  it  a  sense  of  disgrace  which  made  him 
feel :  "  I  am  done  for.     I  have  fallen.     I  have 
disgraced   the   Army.     I   may  as   well   go   all 
lengths   now."     A  message   reached  the   cap- 
tain just  as  she  closed  her  meeting  that  night 
to  say  that  Mota  had  been  seen  reeling  down 
the  streets  raving  drunk,  and  that  the  police 
had   "run    him    in."     Some   might   have  lost 
hope,  or  perhaps  have  been  too  disappointed 
and  discouraged  to  have  done  anything  more 
for  this   very   black   sheep;    but    not   so   the  . 
earnest,   loving  captain.      She  went    immedi- 
ately to  the  jail  and  asked  to  see  Mota.     The 
police   demurred,    saying    that    he  was    dead 
drunk,  was  in  a  disgraceful  condition,  and  she 
really  could  do  no  good  if  she  did  see  him. 
She   insisted,  however,  and   was   admitted   to 
the  cell.     There  he  lay,  her  once  promising  re- 
cruit, helplessly,  hopelessly  drunk,  with  cloth- 
ing  torn,   and    covered   with    mud    from    his 
dishevelled  head  to  his  feet.     Then,   to   the 


44  SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 

surprise  of  the  on-looking  officials,  the  captain 
knelt  and  prayed  for  the  wandering  sheep  to 
a  God  whom  she  evidently  felt  was  not  afar 
off.     Before  she  arose  she  wrote  on  a  piece 
of  paper  as  follows  :  "  Do  not  despair  nor  be 
discouraged.     God  will    not   forsake  you,   and 
I  shall  not.     I  will  call  for  you  in  the  morn- 
ing.    God    bless   you.     Your   Captain."     Mrs. 
Booth  well  says,   "How  much  these  hopeful, 
loving  words  meant  to  the  poor  fellow  when 
he  came  to  himself  no  one  but  God  will  ever 
know."     In    the   meantime,   the  captain    bor- 
rowed a    team   and    drove  out    to   the   place 
where  Mota  had  been  working  steadily  since 
his  conversion,  and  talked  with  his  employer. 
She  told  of  his  trouble,  and   showed   convin- 
cingly that  to  lose  his  employment  through  it 
would  mean   the  forcing  of  him  back  to  the 
old  life.     Her  pleadings  availed,  and  she  was 
told  if  he  got  off  at  court  he  should  be  kept 
right  on  at  his  work.     The  captain  drove  back 
to   town    and    borrowed    ten   dollars    from    a 
friend,   and  then  reached  the  jail  in  time  to 
drive  Mota  to  the  court-room.     At  the  bar  it 
was   the   captain   who  pleaded   for    him,   and 


SEEKING  FOR    THE  BLACK  SHEEP.       45 

when  the  ten-dollar  fine  or  imprisonment  was 
imposed,  poor  Mota  thought  his  future  doom 
was  sealed ;  but,  to  his  amazement,  she  quickly 
paid  the  fine  and  told  him  to  come  with  her. 
From  the  court-room  he  followed  her  meekly, 
and  she  took  him  to  the  house  of  a  brother 
soldier,  where  he  could  wash  and  tidy  himself; 
and  after   a  good    breakfast    she  prayed  with 
hin.    dealing  earnestly  with  him  about  his  soul. 
He  then  and  there  renewed  his  consecration 
to  God,  confessed  his  wrong,  and  went  to  his 
work  with  a  hopeful  heart.     From  that  day  to 
this  he  has  remained  a  sober  and   honorable 
man,  and  has  won  the  confidence  of  the  entire 
community. 

Let  any  one  of  us  who  would  be  a  rescuer 
of  his  brother  from  sin  emulate  the  same 
spirit  of  Christlike  brotherhood. 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


THE  ROMANCE   OF  WOMAN'S  WORK 
FOR   TEMPERANCE   REFORM. 

The  work  of  woman  for  reform,  her  fidelity 
and  devotion  to  great  causes,  has  always  been 
full  of  heroism  and  self-denial.  From  the  days 
of  Miriam  to  Frances  Willard,  woman's  work 
for  reform  has  been  of  romantic  interest.  One 
of  the  most  heroic  stories  of  the  Bible,  and  one 
which  illustrates  the  characteristics  which  have 
made  many  women  such  irresistible  defenders 
of  a  good  cause,  is  that  of  Esther.  Perhaps  it 
may  do  us  good  to  recall  it. 

Xerxes,  the  King  of  Persia,  had  atcempted 
the  invasion  of  Europe,  and  meeting  with  dis- 
astrous failure  had  come  home  to  his  magnifi- 
cent palace  at  Shushan.  It  was  four  years 
after  Vashti  tixe  queen  had  fallen  into  dis- 
grace, and  the  king  fancied  that  it  would  take 
away  some  of  the  smart  of  his  defeat  to  put 
another  beautiful  queen  in  her  place.  So  the 
command  was  sent   forth   throuo:hout   all   the 


I 


WOMAN  ^S   WORK  FOR    TEMPERANCE.       47 

provinces,  in  the  old  despotic  style,  that  the  fair- 
est girls  that  could  be  found  anywhere  should 
be  sent  to  Shushan  for  the  king's  inspection. 

Among  the  people  who  read  this  decree  was 
an  ambitious  man  by  the  name  of  Mordecai. 
Mordecai  was  a  Jew,  and  he  had  a  beautiful 
niece -so    beautiful,    indeed,    that    he    dared 
hope  she  might   surpass   all   the   rest   of   the 
women   of   the   land.     He   introduced    her   to 
the  head  eunuch,  who  had  charge  of  such  mat- 
ters, and  after  twelve  months'  perfecting  of  her 
charms  she  was  introduced  to  the  king,  and  he 
seems  to  have  fallen  in  love  with  her  gt  first 
sight,  and  the  result  was  that  she  was  chosen 
to  be  the  sultana. 

Soon  after  this,  Mordecai,  who  appears  to 
have  been  a  very  keen,  wide-awake  kind  of  a 
man,  unearthed  a  conspiracy  against  the  life 
of  the  king,  and  through  his  niece,  Esther,  the 
queen,  made  the  matter  known  to  the  king, 
and  probably  saved  his  life.  Yet  P^Tordecai  was 
very  careful  to  keep  his  own  relationship  to  the 
queen  a  secret. 

Among   the   people   who  were   attracted   to 
this  splendid  court  in  those  days  was  a  brilliant 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


and  ambitious  young  exile,  a  descendant  of  the 
old  Amalekites,  between  whom  and  the  Jews 
there  was  a  most  deadly  feud.  There  was 
nothing  on  this  earth  that  this  young  Haman 
hated  so  much  as  a  Jew.  Haman  was  a  very 
bright  man,  full  of  cunning  and  intrigue,  and 
aroused  a  great  deal  of  interest  in  the  mind  of 
Xerxes.  Indeed,  he  became  so  highly  honored 
at  the  court  that  the  king  issued  a  special 
order  that  everybody  about  the  palace  and  in 
the  streets  should  bow  down  before  him  when- 
ever he  approached. 

Now,  one  can  imagine  that  this  was  a  bitter 
order  for  Mordecai.  It  was  so  bitter  that  he 
determined  that  he  would  risk  losing  his  head 
rather  than  obey  it.  And  so  when  everybody 
else  was  bowing  and  prostrating  themselves 
before  Haman,  there  was  one  backbone  that 
was  unbending,  and  one  neck  that  held  the 
head  above  it  straight  in  the  air.  When  Ha- 
man heard  about  it  he  was  filled  with  anger 
and  determined  to  get  vengeance.  But  while 
he  was  at  it  he  concluded  to  strike  the  whole 
Jewish  race  at  a  blow. 

Taking    advantage    of    his    friendship   with 


fVOA/JAT^S   IVOHA'  FOJi   TEMPERANCE.      49 

Xerxes,  Haman  found  opportunity  to  tell  the 
monarch   that   there  was   a   certain   class   of 
people  among  his  subjects  who  clung  to  their 
old  customs  and  ceremonies,  who  had  only  con- 
tempt for  his  Majesty,  and  slighted  his  com- 
mands.    He  represented  to  the  king  that  his 
own  personal  friendship  with  him  was  so  great 
that  it  gave  him  keen  sorrow  to  witness  such 
^  state  of  affairs,  and  that  if  the  king  would 
give  him   authority  he  would   leid  a  crusade 
against  these  worthless   and  disobedient   peo- 
pie,  and  destroy  them,  and  out  of  the  spoils 
would  turn  in  a  large  sum  of  money  into  the 
king's  treasury. 

The  king  was  completely  taken  in.  He  was 
angry  in  a  moment  at  the  knowledge  of  such  a 
class  of  rebellious  subjects.  And  though  he 
refused  the  bribe,  he  gave  Haman  his  signet 
ring  and  authority  to  work  his  will  on  the 
Jews. 

Haman  lost  no  time  in  getting  about  his 
devilish  work,  and  sent  orders,  bearing  the 
king's  seal,  throughout  all  the  provinces,  com- 
manding  a  massacre  of  the  Jews,  including 
men,  women,  and  children,  on  a  day  named. 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO, 


When  Mordecai  heard  of  the  doom  that 
threatened  himself  and  his  people,  he  rent 
his  clothes  and  put  on  sackcloth,  so  that 
Esther  in  the  palace  sent  to  find  out  what 
was  the  matter ;  and  when  the  wicked  plot 
was  made  known  to  her,  she  was  filled  with 
horror. 

Now,  Esther  was  a  true  Jewish  maiden,  with 
all  the  tender  love  and  fidelity  of  a  Jewess 
for  her  own  people ;  but  there  was  at  that 
time  a  law  in  force  in  the  palace  forbidding 
any  one  to  approach  the  king  except  when 
specially  commanded  to  do  so,  on  pain  of 
death,  unless  the  monarch  chose  to  hold  out 
his  golden  scepter  to  the  one  approaching,  as 
a  token  of  forgiveness.  Xerxes  seems  at 
this  time  to  have  had  his  mind  taken  up 
with  many  other  things,  and  Esther  had 
not  been  summoned  to  appear  before  him  for 
the  last  thirty  days.  If  she  waited  until 
the  king  commanded  her  to  come  it  might 
be  too  late,  and  she  and  her  people  would 
perish. 

Surely  Esther  was  in  a  hard  place!  While 
she  was  wondering  what  she  should  do,  Mor- 


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^OAfAN^S   WORK  FOR   TEMPERANCE.       51 

decai  sent  her  word,  arousing  her  to  act  at 
once  with  courage,  and  inspiring  her  to  be- 
lieve  that  perhaps  God  had  exalted  her  to 
be  queen  for  just  such  an  occasion  as  the 
one  that  confronted  her. 

Esther  was  a  brave  woman,  and  she  imme- 
diately made   her  resolution.      She  sent  back 
word    to   Mordccai  to  gather  together  all  the 
Jews  living  in  Shushan,  and  hold  with  them 
a  three  days'  and  nights'  prayer-meeting,  fast- 
ing   before   God,  declaring  that   she   and   her 
maidens  would   do  likewisf;.      "  And  so,"  said 
the   heroic   young  queen,  "  will  I  go  in  unto 
the  king,  which  is  not  according  to  the  law ; 
and  if  I  perish,  I  perish." 

On    the   third   day,  arrayed   in  her  queenly 
robes,  Esther  took  her  life  in  her  hands,  and 
drew  near  to  the  king;  and  to  her  great  joy 
he   held  out    the   scepter,  inviting  her  to  ap- 
proach    him.     When   he   asked,  her   wish   she 
told   him   that   she   sought   his    presence   and 
that  of   Haman  that  day  at  a  banquet.     The 
request  was  at  once  granted,  and  Haman  sent 
for.      The   banquet   passed   off   so   pleasantly, 
and  Xerxes  was  so  captivated  by  Esther,  that 


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he  vowed  he  would  give  her  half  his  king- 
dom if  she  asked  for  it.  Manlike,  the  old 
king  thought  there  must  be  something  back 
of  all  this,  and  so  he  quizzically  asked  her 
what  it  was  that  she  wanted,  and  why  she 
had  invited  him.  She  nafvely  replied  that 
she  desired  that  he  and  Haman  should  ban- 
quet with  her  the  next  day  also,  and  that 
at  that  time  she  would  tell  him  what  she 
had  on  her  mind. 

Haman  was  so  excited  at  the  honor  that 
had  been  done  him  by  the  invitation  to  dine 
alone  with  the  king  and  queen,  that  he  went 
home  boasting  of  his  great  success  at  court ; 
"but,"  said  he,  "what  is  all  this  to  me,  while 
Mordccai  the  Jew  sits  there  at  the  king's 
gate  ?  "  Poor  Haman  !  Everybody  else  was 
bowing  to  him,  but  it  all  went  for  nothing 
because  one  old  Jew  had  a  stiff  neck.  So 
in  the  family  council  that  followed  it  was  de- 
termined that  the  carpenters  should  be  set 
to  work  in  the  morning  to  build  a  gallows 
fifty  cubits  high,  to  hang  Mordecai  on,  and 
then  he  could  go  to  the  king's  banquet  with 
a  merry  heart. 


IVOMAN'S   WORK  FOR   TEMPERANCE.       53 

Now,  it  happened  that  Xerxes  was  troubled 
with    insomnia,  as  many  other  busy  men  are, 
and   he   had   discovered   that   when   he   could 
not    sleep   well    it   would    often    put    him    to 
sleep  to   read   some   of   his   own   writings.     I 
have  heard  of  preachers  who  have  found  their 
old  sermons  very  serviceable  in  that  way.     It 
seems  Xerxes  kept  a  diary  of   the  important 
incidents   of   his   reign,   and,    looking    it   over 
that  night,  he  came  to  the  place  where  was 
the  story  of  the  discovery  by  Mordecai  of  the 
conspiracy  against    his    life ;   and    he   remem- 
bered with   a  flush    of    shame    that    he   had 
never   done   anything  to   honor  Mordecai   for 
his   fidelity.      Next   morning,   when   the   king 
had   gone   into   the   room  where   he   received 
visitors,  and   the   courtiers  were   waitmg   out- 
side to   have   an   audience  with  him,  Haman 
was  waiting  at   the  door,  determined   to   ask 
the   king    that   very   morning    for   permission 
to  hang  Mordecai  on  the  new  gallows  he  had 
left   the   carpenters   building.      But    when   he 
was  admitted,  before  he  had  a  chance  to  ask 
his   question,  the  king   turned  to  Haman  and 
said,    "What    should    be    done    to    the    man 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


whom  the  king  delights  to  honor  ? "  Imme- 
diately Haman  thought  within  himself  that 
this  honor  was  to  be  bestowed  on  his  own 
head,  and  with  flashing  eyes  he  replied,  "  Let 
a  robe  of  state  which  the  king  has  himself 
worn  be  brought,  and  a  horse  on  which  the 
king  has  ridden,  with  its  royal  trappings,  espe- 
cially the  head  ornament  of  a  royal  crown 
which  the  king's  charger  bears,  and  let  one 
of  the  highest  princes  array  the  king's  friend 
in  these  robes,  and  seat  him  on  the  horse, 
and  lead  him  on  horseback  through  the  city, 
proclaiming  before  him.  Thus  shall  it  be  done 
to  the  man  whom  the  king  delighteth  to 
honor."  To  his  astonishment  and  horror  the 
king  ordered  him  to  go  at  once  and  do  all 
that  to  Mordecai,  the  vQrj  man  whom  he  had 
come  to  ask  permission  to  hang. 

The  bitterness  of  that  experience  must 
have  been  a  good  preparation  for  death.  The 
banquet  that  afternoon  brought  out  the  vil- 
lainy of  Haman's  plot,  and  before  the  sun  set 
Haman  was  hanging  on  the  gallows  he  had 
erected  the  day  before  for  Mordecai.  And 
Esther  until  this  day  is  regarded  by  her  peo- 


WOMAN'S   WORK  FOR   TEMPERANCE.       $$ 


pie,  wherever  they  are  scattered  to  the  four 
winds  of  heaven,  as  a  type  of  all  that  is 
beautiful,  romantic,  and  noble. 

We  have  sitting  on  this  platform  and  in 
these  pews  to-night  representatives  of  the 
largest  organization  formed  by  women  since 
the  world  began.  This  noble  organization,  the 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  had  a 
beginning  as  romantic  as  the  story  of  Esther. 
And  as  a  new  generation  of  boys  and  girls 
has  grown  up  since  those  days,  perhaps  it 
will  be  interesting  for  us  if  we  shall  recall  that 
story  also. 

Dr.  Dio  Lewis,  a  distinguished  physician  and 
lyceum  lecturer  of  Boston,  delivered  a  lecture 
in  Hillsboro,  Ohio,  on  the  evening  of  Dec.  22, 
1873,  on  "Our  Girls."  He  had  come  to  the 
town  engaged  by  the  Lecture  Association  to 
fill  only  a  single  evening  in  the  winter  lecture 
course  for  the  entertainment  of  the  people ; 
but  as  he  happened  to  have  no  engagcn.cnt  for 
the  next  evening,  some  of  the  people  who  were 
present  persuaded  him  to  remain  in  Hillsboro 
and  deliver  a  free  lecture  on  the  subject  of 
temperance. 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


Dr.  Lewis  was  entertained  in  the  home  of 
Judge  Thompson ;  but  Mrs.  Thompson  was 
unable  to  attend  the  lecture  that  evening  be- 
cause of  duties  at  home.  Her  son,  a  youth  of 
sixteen,  was  present,  however,  and  after  the 
lecture,  greatly  excited  about  what  had  tran- 
spired, he  related  to  his  mother  that  Dr.  Lewis 
had  said  that  his  own  mother  and  several  of 
her  good  Christian  friends  had  united  in  prayer 
with  and  for  the  liquor  sellers  of  his  native 
town,  until  they  had  given  up  their  soul-de- 
stroying business,  and  then  had  said,  "  Ladies, 
you  might  do  the  same  thing  in  Hillsboro  if 
you  had  the  same  faith ; "  and,  turning  to  the 
ministers  and  temperance  men  who  were  upon 
the  platform,  added,  "  Suppose  I  ask  the  ladies 
of  this  audience  to  signify  their  opinions  upon 
the  subject  ? "  As  they  all  seemed  pleased 
with  the  idea,  he  called  on  the  women  who 
were  in  favor  of  such  action  to  rise ;  and  fifty 
or  more  women  had  stood  up  in  token  of 
approval.  He  then  asked  the  men  how  many 
of  them  would  stand  to  back  up  the  women  if 
they  should  undertake  the  work ;  and  some 
sixty   or    seventy    had    arisen.      "  And    now. 


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IVOA/AJV^S   WOKA'  FOR    TEMPERANCE.       57 

mother,"  said  the  enthusiastic  boy,  "they 
have  got  you  into  business,  for  you  are  on  a 
committee  to  do  some  work  at  the  Presby- 
terian  church  in  the  morning  at  nine  o'clock, 
and  then  the  laH-es  want  you  to  go  out  with 
them  to  the  saloons." 

Judge  Thompson  had  that  evening  returned 
from  court  in  another  county,  and,  being  very 
tired,  was  resting  on  the  sofa,  and  the  mother 
and   her  son,   supposing  that   he  was   asleep, 
had  been  speaking  in  an  undertone;   but   as 
the  boy  spoke  about  his  m.other  going  to  the 
saloons   the  judge    suddenly   roused    up    and 
exclaimed,    "What  tomfoolery   is   all   that?" 
The  boy  slipped  out  of  the  room  and  went  to 
bed,  while  Mrs.  Thompson  assured  her  husband 
that  she  would  not  be  led  into  any  foolish  act 
by  Dio  Lewis  or  anybody  else.     After  he  had 
relaxed  into  a  milder  mood,  though  continuing 
to  scoff  at  the  whole  plan  as  "tomfoolery,"  the 
good  woman  ventured  to  remind  him  that  the 
men  had  been  in  the  "tomfoolery"  business 
a  long  time,  and  suggested  that  it  might  be 
"God's  will"  that  the  women  should  now  take 
their  part. 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


The  next  morning,  after  breakfast,  when 
they  were  gathered  in  the  sitting-room,  the  boy 
came  up,  and,  laying  his  hand  on  his  mother's 
shoulder,  inquired,  "Mother,  are  you  not  going 
over  to  the  church  this  morning?"  As  she 
hesitated,  and  doubtless  showed  in  her  counte- 
nance that  she  was  greatly  perplexed,  the  boy 
said,  "But,  my  dear  mother,  you  know  you 
have  to  go."  Then  her  daughter,  who  was 
sitting  on  a  stool  at  her  side,  leaned  over  in 
a  most  tender  manner,  and,  looking  up  in  her 
face,  said,  "Don't  you  think  you  will  go?" 
While  this  conversation  had  been  going  on. 
Judge  Thompson  had  been  walking  the  floor 
in  silence.  Suddenly  he  stopped,  and  placing 
his  hand  upon  the  family  Bible  that  lay  upon 
his  wife's  work-table  he  said,  "  Children,  you 
know  where  your  mother  goes  to  settle  all 
vexed  questions.  Let  us  leave  her  alone," 
going  out  of  the  room  as  he  spoke,  the  children 
following  him.  Mrs.  Thompson  turned  the 
key  in  the  lock,  and  was  in  the  act  of  kneeling 
down  to  pray  when  she  heard  a  gentle  tap  at 
the  door.  Upon  opening  it,  she  found  her 
daughter  with  her  Bible  open  and  the   tears 


rVOM^AT^S   IVO/^A-  FOR    TEMPERANCE.       59 

coursing  down   her  cheeks   as   she    said,    "I 
opened  to  this,  mother;  it  must  be  for  you." 
She  immediately  left  the  room,  and  her  mother 
sat  down  to  read  with  new  insight  the  wonder- 
ful message  of  promise  in  the  146th  Psalm.     It 
seemed  a  new  Psalm  to  her  as  she  read  :  "  Put 
not  your  trust  in  princes,  nor  in  the  son  of 
man,  in  whom  there  is  no  help.  .  .  .     Happy 
is  he  that  hath  the  God  of  Jacob  for  his  help, 
whose  hope  is  in   the  Lord   his  God:   which 
made  heaven,  and  earth,  the  sea,  and  all  that 
therein  is  :  which  keepeth  truth  for  ever  :  which 
executeth  judgment  for  the  oppressed  :  which 
giveth  food  to  the  hungry.     The  Lord  looseth 
the  prisoners :  the  Lord  opencth  the  eyes  of 
the   blind:    the    Lord   raiscth   them    that   are 
bowed  down  :  the  Lord  loveth  the  righteous : 
the  Lord  preserveth  the  strangers ;  he  relieveth 
the  fatherless  and  widow :  but  the  way  of  the 
wicked  he  turneth  upside  down." 

Doubting  no  longer  what  her  duty  was,  she 
at  once  went  to  the  Presbyterian  church,  where 
quite  a  large  congregation  had  already  gath- 
ered.  She  was  at  once  unanimously  chosen  as 
the  president;  Mrs.  General  McDowell,  vice- 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


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II 


president;  and  Mrs.  D.  K.  Finner,  secretary  of 
the  unique  work  which  they  were  to  perform. 

They  drew  up  appeals  to  druggists,  saloon- 
keepers, and  hotel  proprietors.  Then  Dr.  Mc- 
Surely,  the  Presbyterian  minister,  who  had  up 
to  this  time  occupied  the  chair,  called  upon 
the  new  president  to  come  forward  and  take 
her  place.  She  tried  to  get  up;  but,  having 
never  done  any  public  work,  her  limbs  refused 
to  act,  and  she  sat  still.  Wise  Dr.  McSurely 
looked  around  at  the  men  and  said,  "  Brethren, 
I  see  that  the  ladies  will  do  nothing  while  we 
remain ;  let  us  adjourn,  leaving  this  new  work 
with  God  and  the  women." 

After  the  men  had  filed  out,  and  the  door 
was  closed  behind  them,  new  strength  seemed 
to  come  to  Mrs.  Thompson ;  and  she  walked 
forward  to  the  minister's  table,  took  the  large 
Bible,  and,  opening  it,  told  the  story  of  the 
morning  in  her  own  home.  After  she  had 
tearfully  read  the  Psalm  and  commented  on 
it,  she  called  upon  Mrs.  McDowell  to  lead  in 
prayer.  Now,  Mrs.  McDowell,  though  a  good 
Christian  woman  for  many  years,  had  never 
in  all  her  life  heard  her  own  voice  in  prayer; 


WOMAN'S   WORK  FOR    TEMPERANCE,      6 1 

but  she  prayed  that  morning  as  though  Isaiah's 
"coal  of  fire"  had  unsealed  her  lips. 

As  they  rose  from  their  knees  the  president 
asked  Mrs.  Cowden,  the  wife  of  the  Methodist 
minister,  to  lead  in  the  singing  of  the  old 
hymn  "Give  to  the  winds  thy  fears;"  and 
turning  to  the  rest  of  the  women  she  said, 
"As  we  all  join  in  singing  this  hymn,  let  us 
form  in  line,  two  and  two,  the  small  women 
in  front,  leaving  the  tall  ones  to  bring  up  the 
rear,  and  let  us  at  once  proceed  to  our  sacred 
mission,  trusting  alone  in  the  God  of  Jacob." 
As  they  marched  out  through  the  door  of  the 
church  into  the  street,  they  were  singing  these 
prophetic  words  :  — 

"  Far,  far  above  thy  thought, 
His  counsels  shall  appear, 
When  fully  he  the  work  hath  wrought 
That  caused  thy  needless  fear." 

They  went  to  drug  stores  and  saloons  and 
hotels ;  they  pleaded  and  sung  and  prayed,  un- 
til saloon  after  saloon  was  closed  at  their 
entreaties.  It  was  a  divine  contagion  that 
spread  throughout  the  land.  In  hundreds  of 
towns   and  villages,   from   one   ocean    to   the 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


Other,  Christian  women  followed  their  ex- 
ample. Sometimes  they  were  abused  and 
mobbed;  in  some  places  they  were  arrested 
and  thrown  into  jail ;  but  it  was  a  divine  work, 
and  God  was  in  it,  and  great  good  was  ac- 
complished. 

But  the  women  soon  found  that  this  sort 
of  work  could  only  be  temporary,  and  that 
no  permanent  results  could  be  achieved  unless 
the  law,  which  was  the  fortress  of  the  traffic, 
could  be  changed.  If  by  their  prayers  and 
entreaties  they  should  persuade  every  man  in 
the  town  to  give  up  his  wicked  business  to- 
day, to-morrow  the  greed  of  some  other  man 
would  lead  him  to  set  up  a  new  saloon.  And 
so,  out  of  this  romantic  upheaval  of  CViristian 
devotion  on  the  part  of  American  women, 
fighting  for  all  that  was  dear  to  them,  arose 
the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union, 
and  thus  was  inaugurated  its  struggle  "  For 
God,  and  Home,  and  Every  Land." 

At  every  step  in  the  temperance  reform,  in 
every  State  of  the  Union,  woman's  romantic 
daring  for  her  home  and  her  people  has  glori- 
fied this  mighty  movement.     Frances  Willard, 


JVOM^JV'S   WORK  FOR   TEMPERANCE.      63 

in   her  book  entitled   "Woman   and   Temper- 
ance," tells  how,  when  the  Prohibition  Amend- 
ment   was    being    discussed    in    the    Kansas 
Legislature,  the  courage  of  one  little  woman 
proved  to  be  the  pivot  on  which  the  question 
turned.     For  while   the   resolution    to   submit 
the  Constitutional  Amendment  to  the  people 
passed  the  Senate  without  special  difficulty,  in 
the  House  it  trembled  in  the  balance.     Public 
feeling  was  at  fever  heat,  and  the  debate  was 
long  and  hotly  contested.      Temperance  men 
and  women   flocked   to   the   Capitol,   and   the 
liquor  -en  were  out    in   full   force.     At   last, 
at  midnight,  the  vote  came.     The  roll  of  ayes 
and   nays  was  called,  while  every  ear  in   the 
vast  assembly  that  filled  galleries  and  corridor 
was  strained  to  catch  each  man's  response  as 
he  answered  to  his  name.     Busy  pencils  kept 
the  tally,  and  when  the  voting  ceased,  a  sigh 
from  many  a  temperance  man's  heart  accom- 
panied the  words :  "  We've  lost  our  cause  by 
just  one  vote  !  " 

"But  look!  A  woman,  gentle,  modest, 
sweet,  advances  from  the  crowd.  What!  is 
she  going  down  that  aisle,  where  woman  never 


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trod  before,  and  in  among  that  group  of  party 
leaders?  Yea,  verily;  and  every  eye  follows 
her  with  intense  interest,  and  the  throng  is 
strangely  still  as  she  goes  straight  to  her 
husband,  takes  his  big  hand  in  her  little  one, 
lifts  her  dark  eyes  to  his  face,  and  speaks 
these  thrilling  words :  *  My  darling,  for  my 
sake,  for  the  sake  of  our  sweet  home,  for 
Kansas'  sake  and  God's,  I  beseech  you  change 
your  vote.'  When,  lo  !  upon  the  silence  broke 
a  man's  deep  voice :  *  Mr.  Speaker,  before  the 
clerk  reads  the  result,  /  ivish  to  change  my 
vote  from  no  to  aye !  '  How  loud  rang  out  the 
cheers  of  men !  how  fell  the  rain  of  women's 
tears !  for  love  had  conquered,  as  it  always 
will  at  last ;  and  the  voices  of  the  people  when 
heard  in  Kansas  said,  *  Give  us  prohibition 
for  home  and  children's  sake.'  So  Kansas 
leads  the  van,  and  one  little  woman  saved  the 
day." 

God  bless  these  women  who  arc  making 
this  brave  fight  for  their  homes  !  Surely  there 
is  enough  in  the  history  of  rum's  dealings 
with  the  American  home  to  arouse  the  hot 
blood   in  every  true  heart.     There   is   an   old 


IVOMAN'S   WORK  FOR   TEMPERANCE.      65 

Story,   whether    legendary   or    not    I    do   not 
know,  of  a  queer  old  miser  down  on  the  coast 
of   California  who,   being   a   little   off  in   the 
upper  story,  conceived   the   strange  fancy  of 
building  himself  a  home  out  of  the  fragments 
of  wrecked  vessels.     And  it  is  said  that  with 
tireless  patience  he  persisted   in   his  purpose 
until    his   odd    dream   grew   to   be  a   reality. 
The  whole  edifice  is   a  combination   of   bulk- 
heads and  bulwarks,  of  lockers  and  cabins.     It 
is  weather-boarded  on  the  outside  with  planks 
that  have  been  ripped  off  from  the  ship's  side 
by  the  savage  violence   of  wind   or   breaker. 
The  ceilings  are  decorated  with  the  rare  and 
beautiful  linings  of  sumptuous  steamer  cabins. 
The  kitchen  is  the  galley  of  a  wrecked  mer- 
chantman. 

Now,  all  that  is  vc^y  strange  and  inter- 
esting. But  I  can  take  you  into  any  city 
in  this  land  where  liquor  saloons  abound,  and 
show  you  a  wreckage  palace  more  interesting 
than  that.  Let  us  go  out  into  some  splendid 
suburb  where  great  wealth  is  accustomed  to 
resort.  Here  is  a  magnificent  palace.  Great 
stone  pillars  stand  guard  at  the  gate,  and  the 


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grounds  are  spacious  and  are  arranged  accord- 
ing to  the  best  skill  of  the  landscape  gar- 
dener's art.  Splendid  trees  stand  gracefully 
on  the  sward.  In  the  conservatories  rare  or- 
chids and  beautiful  plants  from  all  parts  of 
the  world  blossom  at  the  bidding  of  the  man 
who  dwells  in  the  palace  in  the  midst  of  all 
this  splendor  and  beauty.  We  approach  the 
doors,  and  we  find  them  of  massive  walnut. 
They  swing  at  the  touch  on  noiseless  hinges. 
The  carpet  under  our  feet  is  soft  as  velvet. 
The  frescoes  on  the  ceilings  over  our  heads 
are  the  work  of  an  artist.  Beautiful  pictures 
from  the  studios  of  the  whole  world  ran- 
sacked hang  on  the  wails.  Everything  about 
the  house  suggests  abundance  of  wealth.  We 
are  assured  that  the  man  who  lives  here  re- 
poses at  night  on  a  bed  of  the  softest  down  ; 
the  rarest  viands  and  the  most  sparkling 
champagne  grace  his  board  —  and  yet  this 
house  is  built  of  wrecks !  Every  stone  in 
the  stairway,  every  yard  of  carpet  on  the 
floor,  every  lamp  in  the  chandelier,  every 
fresco  on  the  ceiling,  every  picture  hanging 
on  the  wall,  is  in  whole  or  in  part  the  frag- 


WOMAN  ^S   WORK  FOR   TEMPERANCE.      6/ 

ments   of   a  wreck    sadder  than   ever  outlaw 
of  the   sea   hath    wrought  —  a   wreck  not   of 
a  ship,  but  of  a  home,  a  life,  a  soul ! 
^  Need  I  tell  you  that  the  owner  of  this  man- 
sion  is   also   a  prince  of  the  liquor  dealers  ? 
And  I  know  more  than  one  city  in  this  coun- 
try  where    I   can   take   you   from   a  wreckage 
palace   like   that  to  a  house  where  once   the 
honest    industry    of    a    faithful,    hard-working 
man  brought  peace  and  comfort  and  blessing 
to  a  happy  and   self-respecting  family.     They 
were    not    rich,    but    they   were    comfortable. 
They  loved    and    respected   each    other;   they 
had   enough    to    eat   and    to   wear,    and   were 
happy  in  their  home.     There  was  a  carpet  on 
the  floor;    there  were  comfortable   chairs  and 
tables  ;  there  was  a  book-shelf  with  books  on 
it;    and    there    was   plenty    in    the    cupboard. 
But    come    with    me    and    see   it   now!      The 
carpet    is   gone  off   the  floor;  the  books,  and 
the   book-shelf   that   mocked  them   after  they 
had   disappeared,    are   gone ;   the  furniture   is 
gone  ;  the   cupboard  is  bare ;  a  faded,  broken 
woman    sits    on   a   three-legged    stool    by   the 
window   and    sews    for   a   Jewish    sweater  on 


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knee  pants  at  fifteen  cents  a  dozen  pairs,  or 
bends  her  broken  back,  fit  associate  for  her 
broken  heart,  over  the  wash-tub,  to  try  to 
earn  enough  to  keep  the  wolf  from  the  door, 
and  save  her  little  ones  from  starving.  The 
children  are  ragged  and  ill-kept  and  quarrel- 
some. What  has  wrought  this  horrid  desola- 
tion }  Ah,  everything  that  was  beautiful  and 
comfortable  in  this  home  has  been  built  into 
that  wreckage  palace  yonder  on  the  hill.  The 
love  and  nobility  out  of  the  heart  of  this  hus- 
band and  father,  the  strength  and  manhood 
out  of  his  mind  and  body,  the  very  carpet 
off  the  floor,  the  book-shelf  off  the  wall,  the 
shoes  off  this  little  girl's  feet,  the  coat  off 
this  ragged  boy's  back,  the  bread  out  of  this 
baby's  mouth,  the  roses  out  of  this  woman's 
cheeks,  and,  it  may  be,  the  very  hope  of 
heaven  out  of  her  heart,  have  been  built 
into  that  wreckage  palace  yonder.  That  the 
wrecker  might  sleep  on  down,  this  family 
sleep  on  the  floor.  That  he  may  eat  costly 
meats  and  drink  rare  wines,  they  feed  on 
stale  crusts.  That  he  may  have  rare  orchids 
that  cost  five  thousand  dollars  a  bloom,  this, 


WOMAN'S   WORK  FOR    TEMPERANCE.       6g 

and  a  hundred  other  homes  like  it,  have  been 
plundered    and   wrecked.     And   yet    Christian 
men  all  over  the  land  have  seen  these  wreck- 
age palaces  going  up  one  after  another,  and 
multitudes    of    them    have    been    dumb    and 
silent  as  if  they  did  not  care.     Multitudes  of 
preachers  have  seen  it,  and  remained  "dumb 
dogs   that   could   not   bark."     No  wonder  the 
women  are  aroused  !      May  God  arouse  them 
more   and   more,  multiply  their  numbers,  and 
hasten  the  day  when  not  only  with  voice  and 
pen,  but  with   ballot  as  well,  they  shall   lead 
us  to  the  victory  that   is  coming  against  this 
infamous  traffic  in  strong  drink! 


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THE  CHURCH  AND  THE  SALOON. 

I    BELIEVE  it   to  be  honestly  true  that  the 
licensed    saloon    exists    in    this    country    on 
the    sufferance   of    the    Christian    Church.      I 
mean  by  that  that  there  are  professed  Chris- 
tian people   sufficient   in   this  country  to  en- 
act  laws  prohibiting  the  sale  of   intoxicaL mg 
drinks  as  a  beverage,  and  enforce  those  laws 
in   most   parts   of   the    country   fully   as   well 
as   other  laws   are   enforced,   were  they  suffi- 
ciently  aroused   to   their  duty  and   united   in 
the    achievement    of    their    purpose.      I    am 
not  bringing  a  railing  accusation  against  the 
Christian  Church.     I   believe  that  the  church 
represents    the    organized    goodness    of    the 
country.     The  modern  temperance  movement 
was  of   Christian    birth,    and    such   success  as 
it    has    had    has    been    achieved   through  the 
earnest    conviction    and    self-denying    toil    of 
Christian   men  and  women.     And   I    have  no 
hope   of    the   final    triumph    of    sobriety   and 


THE   CHURCff  AND    THE  SALOON.  yi 

the  overthrow  of  this  infamous  liquor  traffic 
except  through  the  intelligent  and  united 
action  of  the  Christian  churches. 

History  shows  us  that  after  the  Christian 
Church  has  reached  a  righteous  position  so 
far  as  theory  and  principle  are  concerned,  it 
sometimes  takes  a  good  while  to  bring  the 
everyday  living  of  the  membership  of  the 
churches  up  to  the  standpoint  of  their  pro- 
claimed principles. 

Attention  has  been  recently  called  to  the 
parallel  between  the  action  of  the  Christian 
ministers  and  churches  in  the  antislavery  agi- 
tation and  that  which  is  going  on  in  our  own 
generation  against  the  liquor  traffic.  We  are 
told  that  at  Springfield,  III.,  in  Lincoln's  great 
campaign  against  Douglas,  twenty  of  the 
twenty-three  ministers  of  the  city  were  for 
Douglas  and  against  Lincoln. 

Mr.  Lincoln  had  made  a  careful  canvass 
of  the  city  of  Springfield.  One  day  he  called  V 
in  Mr.  Bateman,  the  superintendent  of  public 
instruction,  and,  having  previously  locked  all 
the  doors,  he  said,  "Let  us  look  over  this 
book.      I   wish    particularly   to    see    how   the 


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ministers  of  Springfield  are  going  to  vote." 
The  leaves  were  turned,  one  by  one ;  and  as 
the  names  were  examined  Mr.  Lincoln  fre- 
quently asked  if  this  one  and  that  were  not 
a  minister,  or  an  elder,  or  a  member  of  such 
or  such  church,  and  sadly  expressed  his  sur- 
prise on  receiving  an  affirmative  answer.  In 
that  manner  they  went  through  the  book, 
and  then  he  closed  it,  and  sat  silently  for 
some  minutes  regarding  a  memorandum  in 
pencil  which  lay  before  him.  At  length  he 
turned  to  Mr.  Bateman  with  a  face  full  of 
sadness  and  said,  "  Here  are  twenty-three  min- 
isters of  different  denominations,  and  all  of 
them  are  against  me  but  three  ;  and  here 
are  a  great  many  prominent  members  of  the 
churches,  and  a  very  large  majority  are  against 
me. 

He  drew  forth  a  pocket  New  Testament. 
"  These  men  well  know,"  he  continued,  "  that 
I  am  for  freedom  in  the  Territories,  freedom 
everywhere  as  far  as  the  Constitution  and 
the  lav/s  will  permit,  and  that  my  opponents 
are  for  slavery.  They  know  all  this,  and  yet 
with  this  Book  in  their  hands,  in  the  light  of 


THE   CHURCH  AND   THE  SALOON.         73 

which  human  bondage  cannot  live  a  moment, 
they  are  going  to  vote  against  me ;  I  do  not 
understand  it  at  all." 

Here  Mr.  Lincoln  paused  —  paused  for  a 
long  minute  — his  features  surcharged  with 
emotion.  Then  he  rose  and  walked  up  and 
down  the  reception-room  in  the  effort  to  re- 
tain or  regain  his  self-possession. 

Stopping  at   last,  he  said  with  a  trembling 
voice,   and    his    cheeks   wet    with    tears,    "I 
know  there   is   a   God,  and  that  he  hates  in- 
justice and  slavery.     I  see  the  storm  coming, 
and   I   know  that   his   hand   is   in    it.     If  he 
has  a  place  and  work  for  me  — and  I  think  he 
has  — I  believe  I  am  ready.      I  am  nothing, 
but  truth  is  everything.     I  know  I  am  right, 
because  I  know  that  liberty  is  right,  for  Christ 
teaches    it,  and    Christ   is   God.     I   have   told 
them  that  a  house  divided  against  itself  cannot 
stand  ;  and  Christ   and   reason  say  the  same ; 
and  they  will  find  it  so.      Douglas  doesn't  care 
whether  slavery  is  voted  up  or  down ;  but  God 
cares,    and   humanity   cares,  and    I   care,   and 
with  God's  help  I  shall   not  fail.     I  may  not 
see  the  end,   but   it   will   come,   and   I  shall 


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b*^   vindicated,   and   these   men  will   find  that 
they  have  not  read  their  Bibles  right." 

Much  of  this  was  uttered  as  if  he  were 
speaking  to  himself,  and  Mr.  Bateman,  who 
listened  to  it,  declared  that  the  words  were 
spoken  with  a  sad  and  earnest  solemnity  of 
manner  impossible  to  be  described. 

After  a  pause  he  resumed,  "  Doesn't  it  ap- 
pear strange  that  men  can  ignore  the  moral 
aspects  of  this  contest }  A  revelation  could 
not  make  it  plainer  to  me  that  slavery  or  the 
government  must  be  destroyed.  The  future 
will  be  something  awful  as  I  look  at  it  from 
this  Rock  on  which  I  stand  [alluding  to  the 
Testament  which  he  still  held  in  his  hands], 
especially  with  the  knowledge  of  how  these 
ministers  are  going  to  vote.  It  seems  as  if 
God  has  borne  with  this  thing  until  the  very 
teachers  of  religion  have  come  to  defend  it 
from  the  Bible,  and  claim  for  it  a  divine 
character  and  sanction ;  and  now  the  cup  of 
iniquity  is  full,  and  the  vials  of  wrath  will 
be  poured  out." 

And  yet  at  that  time  all  the  leading 
churches  of  the  North  believed  and  declared 


THE   CHURCH  AND    THE  SALOON  75 

human  slavery  to  be  so  wrong  that  they 
would  not  admit  a  slaveholder  to  member- 
ship. But  when  it  came  to  put  their  prin- 
ciples into  action,  and  make  a  stand,  risking 
party  loss  in  order  to  uphold  their  principles, 
how  long  they  delayed  ! 

History    is   repeating   itself   in  .the   present 
agitation    against   the   traffic   in  strong  drink. 
So   far  as  our  manifestoes  are  concerned,  we 
have    made   tremendous    advancement   in   the 
last   two   or  three   generations.     If   you   take 
the  Methodist  Church  as  an  example  of   the 
advancement   of  temperance  sentiment  among 
the   great    middle   class  of   American   citizen- 
ship, you   cannot  but  be  impressed  with  this 
fact.       In    the    General    Conference    of    the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  held  in  18 12,  Rev. 
James   Axley,   an   heroic   temperance   worker, 
introduced  this  resolution  :  — 

''Resolved,  That  no  stationed  or  local  preacher  shall 
retail  spirituous  or  malt  liquors  without  forfeiting  his 
ministerial  character  among  us." 

The  bare  fact  that  there  was  necessity 
for  the  introduction  of  such  a  resolution  is 
a  fearful  commentary  on  the  condition  of  the 


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church  and  the  times;  but  it  appears  sadder 
still  when  we  reflect  that  even  this  could  not 
be  carried  in  that  General  Conference.  Five 
unsuccessful  attempts  were  made  to  pass  it. 
Laban  Clark,  who  records  it,  says,  "  Axley 
was  in  earnest,  but   m'>  ^    .•    the  Conference 

opposed   him,  making   i ry  with    his   quaint 

speeches ;  and  when  his  motion  was  lost  he 
turned  his  face  to  the  wall  and  wept."  I 
don't  blame  him.  In  the  General  Conference 
of  1816,  Axley  introduced  the  same  resolu- 
tion, with  "  malt  liquors "  left  out,  still  leav- 
ing it  possible  for  preachers  to  sell  beer,  and 
carried  it.  It  was  not  until  1824  that  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  began  to  stand 
on  strong  ground  on  this  subject.  If  you 
turn  from  this  to  the  utterances  of  the  last 
General  Conference  in  1892  at  Omaha,  one 
cannot  but  mark  the  tremendous  advance. 
Here  is  the  utterance  of  the  last  Confer- 
ence ;  — 


**  We  reiterate  the  language  of  the  Episcopal  Address 
of  1888 :  '  The  liquor  traffic  is  so  pernicious  in  all  its 
bearings,  so  inimical  to  the  interest  of  honest  trade, 
so  repugnant  to  the   moral  sense,  so  injurious  to  the 


THE   CIlURCir  AND   THE  SALOON.  77 

peace  and  order  of  society,  so  hurtful  to  the  home,  to 
the   church,   and    to   the   body  politic,   and   so  utterly 
antagonistic  to  all  that  is  precious  in  life,  that  the  only 
proper  attitude   toward   it,  for  Christians,  is  that  of  re- 
lentless hostility.     It  can  never  be  legalized  without  sin.' 
We  concur  in  the  Episcopal  Address  of  1892,  where  it 
is  declared:  'In  our  judgment  the  saloon  is  an  unmixed 
evil,    full   of  diabolism,   a   disgrace   to   our   civilization, 
the  chief  corrupter  of  political  action,  and  a  continual 
menace  to  the  order  of  society  and  the  peace  and  purity 
of  our   homes.'     Believing  as  we  do  that  the  traffic  in 
intoxicating  beverages  sustains  the  relation  of  an  effi- 
cient  cause  to  the  vice  of  intemperance,  we  hold  that 
no  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  can  con- 
sistently contribute  by  voice,  vote,  or  influence  to  the 
perpetuation  and  protection  of  that  traffic.     We  declare 
before  all   the  world   that  the  church  of  God  ought  to 
be  known  always  and  everywhere  as  the  relentless  and 
uncompromising  foe  of  this  ungodly  business,  and  that 
It  is  the  duty  of  every  Christian  to  wage  ceaseless  war- 
fare against  it." 

Not  satisfied  even  with  this  searching  and 
unequivocal  statement,  the  General  Conference 
proceeded  to  say  :  — 

"  We  recommend  all  members  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  who  enjoy  the  elective  franchise,  to  so  use 
that  solemn  trust  as  to  promote  the  rescue  of  our  coun- 
try from  the  guilt  and  dishonor  which  have  been  brought 
upon  it  by  criminal  complicity  with  the  liquor  traffic. 

•♦We  do  not  presume  to  dictate  the  political  conduct 


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of  our  people,  but  we  do  record  our  deliberate  judg- 
ment that  no  political  party  has  a  right  to  expect,  nor 
ought  it  to  receive,  the  support  of  Christian  men  so 
long  as  it  stands  committed  to  the  license  policy,  or 
refuses  to  put  itself  on  record  in  an  attitude  of  open 
hostility  to  the  saloons." 


Surely  there  is  nothing  tame  nor  vague 
nor  hard  to  be  understood  about  that !  Time 
would  fail  me  to  quote  like  resolutions  from  the 
Baptist,  Presbyterian,  Congregational,  Dutch 
Reformed,  the  English  branch  of  the  Lutheran 
Church,  and  other  churches,  on  this  subject. 
While,  perhaps,  with  the  exception  of  the 
Presbyterian  Synod,  the  other  churches  have 
not  spoken  as  explicitly  as  the  General 
Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
yet  they  unite  in  an  expression  of  their 
hatred  of  the  saloon  and  their  conviction  that 
it  ought  to  be  suppressed. 

These  facts  show  us  that  in  theory  and 
resolution,  which  express,  of  course,  the  intel- 
lectual and  moral  conscience  of  the  people, 
we  have  reached  very  high  ground.  Alas ! 
when  we  come  to  the  practical  incarnation 
of   these   resolutions   in   the   social,   business, 


Tin   CHURCH  AND    THE  SALOON.  79 

and  political   conduct   of   the   people,  we  fall 
very    short    of    our   manifesto.      VVe    have   a 
signal    illustration    of   this    in   the  election  to 
a   trusteeship   in    the    Methodist   Seminary  at 
Kent's   Hill,    Me.,   of  a   notorious   brewer  of 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.     That  such  a  thing  could 
be   done   in    the   State   of    Maine,   the   home 
of   Neal  Dow,  and  a  State  where   throughout 
nme-tenths   of    its   dominion    the   prohibitory 
law  ,s  well  enforced ;  and  that  in  a  Methodist 
semmary   such   an    election    could   have   been 
had,    is   enough   to   cover   the    heads   of   tem- 
perance    and    Christian    people    with    shame! 
When    the   newspaper   reporters  came   to   me 
about    it,  I  said  to   them    that   they  had   cer- 
tainly made  a  mistake,  and  advised   them  to 
inquire     into    it    very    carefully    before    they 
made  any  public  statement.     But  it  turns  out 
to   be   too    true.      Think   of    what    it    means 
—  the  putting  up  of  a  notorious  brewer  as  a 
model   of   business    manhood   to   be   emulated 
by   the    young   men    and    young   women    who 
attend  the  school  ! 


And  yet  when  we  study  it  a  littl 
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siiould  come  to  pass.  We  have  been  sow- 
ing to  the  wind,  and  now  we  are  beginning 
to  reap  the  whirlwind.  We  have  been  say- 
ing in  our  resolutions  that  the  liquor  traffic 
can  never  be  legalized  without  sin,  and  have 
then  gone  deliberately  to  the  polls  and  sup- 
ported candidates  for  office  who  were  thor- 
oughly committed  to  accomplish  and  sustain 
the  very  sin  we  have  denounced.  Joseph 
Cook  puts  the  logic  of  this  wholj  question 
in  a  nutshell.  He  says  that  when  a  traffic 
is  so  notoriously  injurious  that  a  man  who 
practises  it  is  excluded  from  church  member- 
ship by  the  common  consent  of  the  great 
body  of  the  Protestant  denominations,  then 
church  members  in  those  denominations  have 
no  right  to  legalize  that  traffic  by  their  votes. 
It  is  a  fiat  contradiction  for  the  church  with 
one  hand  to  excommunicate  rumsellers,  and 
with  the  other  hand  to  manufacture  rum- 
sellers,  To  put  it  plainly,  here  is  a  Metho- 
dist preacher  who  helped  to  elect  to  office 
the  men  who  passed  the  Raines  bill  to  con- 
tinue under  certain  conditions  the  licensing 
of  the  liquor  traffic.     Practically  he  voted  to 


THE   CHURCH  AND    THE  SALOON. 


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license  Frank  Jones,  on  Fulton  Street,  as  a 
saloon-keeper  for  so  much  money  per  annum. 
Some  Saturday  afternoon  Frank  Jones,  the 
saloon-keeper,  who  was  licensed  by  the  politi- 
cal representatives  this  preacher  supported, 
comes  into  the  dominie's  study  and  says,  "  I 
want  to  join  your  church  to-morrow."  At 
once  the  preacher  will  say,  "  According  to 
the  rules  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
it  is  not  possible  for  me  to  admit  you  into 
the  church."  "Well,  that  is  strange,"  re- 
plies Mr.  Jones.  "  A  few  weeks  ago  you 
voted  to  make  me  a  rumseller,  and  now  you 
refuse  to  let  me  join  your  church  because 
I  am  a  rumseller."  And  I  would  like  to 
know  how  that  Methodist  preacher  is  going 
to  reply  to  Frank  Jones  "*.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  he  can't  reply.  As  preachers  and  peo- 
ple we  stand  convicted  of  hypocrisy  before 
the  community  so  long  as  we  continue  to 
preach  and  pray  and  pass  resolutions  for  pro- 
hibition, and  vote  to  perpetuate  license  in 
our  towns  and  cities ;  we  cannot  shake  off 
our  complicity  with  the  traffic  so  long  as 
that  is  our  inconsistent  attitude. 


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One  winter  morning,  in  Boston,  a  police- 
man rang  my  doorbell  just  at  daybreak.  I 
went  down  to  the  door,  and  he  said  to  me, 
"  I  have  just  come  from  a  scene  which  I  think 
you  ought  to  witness." 

I  dressed  myself  as  quickly  as  I  could,  and 
went  with  him.  It  was  a  cold,  raw  morning, 
and  a  rather  heavy  fall  of  snow  lay  on  the 
ground.  A  brisk  walk  of  seven  or  eight  min- 
utes brought  us  into  a  decaying  portion  of  the 
city,  and  into  a  dirty  little  alley  where  another 
policeman  stood  at  the  door  of  a  tenement 
house.  We  passed  him,  and  entered  a  room 
on  the  ground  floor  that  was  in  a  condition 
of  disorder  left  by  a  drunken  carousal  of  the 
night  before.  The  chairs  and  table  were 
broken,  and  the  bare  floor  was  dirty  enough. 
Lying  in  a  little  room  beyond  this,  on  some 
damp  straw,  with  her  body  thrown  partially 
across  the  doorway,  was  the  form  of  a  dead 
woman.  I  stepped  over  the  body,  and  stood 
where  the  light  of  the  one  window  in  the 
room  fell  across  her  face.  She  was  an  old 
woman,  probably  nearly  seventy  years  of  age. 
Her  swollen   face  and    bloated,   sensual   look 


THE   CHURCH  AND    THE  SALOON.  ^^ 

gave  every  indication  of  years  of  drunkenness 
and  dissipation ;  and  yet,  as  she  lay  there  in 
the  cold,  gray  light  of  that  winter  morning, 
with  her  damp  white  hair  thrown  back  on 
the  floor  behind  her  head,  revealing  her  broad 
forehead,  one  could  not  fail  to  perceive  that 
she  had  been  a  woman  of  rather  more  than 
average  native  intelligence. 

While   I   stood   looking    upon   the  sad   and 
repulsive  figure,  there  came  in  from  the  snow- 
covered  street  a  little  boy  about  ten  years  of 
age,  with  bare  feet,  ragged  jacket,  and  on  his 
head  an  old  hat  that  had   once  had  a  crown, 
but  now  let  the  lad's  dishevelled  hair  appear 
through  its  top.     The  pitiful-looking  boy  stood 
in    the    doorway  on  the  other  side   from    me, 
and  looked  grimly  and  solemnly  down  on  the 
dead   face  of   his  grandmother.      His   mother 
had  died  about  six  months  before  in  a  drunken 
spree,  and  his  father  was  lying  dead  drunk  in 
another  room. 

As  I  looked  from  the  grandmother  to  the 
grandson,  memory,  with  one  of  those  sudden 
leaps  that  it  alone  can  perform,  vaulted  the 
gulf  of  twenty-five  years,  and  I  stood,  a  little 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


I  ! 


boy  of  ten  years,  beside  the  death-bed  of  my 
grandmother.  She  was  a  sweet,  pure,  Chris- 
tian woman,  full  of  love  for  all,  and  was  my 
very  ideal  of  what  a  good  and  noble  woman 
ought  to  be.  She  had  been  very  kind  and 
good  to  me,  and  I  loved  her  with  great  tender- 
ness. When  she  was  near  the  end  she  had 
me  brought  to  her  side,  and  put  her  hands 
upon  my  head,  and  spoke  tender  and  loving 
words  of  farewell.  After  a  little  she  ceased 
to  breathe ;  her  face  was  strangely  white  and 
quiet  and  still,  and  they  told  me  grandmother 
was  in  heaven.  That  incident  changed  all  my 
ideas  about  heaven.  Up  to  that  time  I  had 
supposed  heaven  was  a  very  beautiful  place 
with  golden  streets,  and  jasper  walls,  and 
beautiful  mansions;  but  there  was  no  one 
there  that  I  knew,  and  it  had  no  special  at- 
tractions for  me.  But  after  that  there  was 
somebody  in  heaven  that  I  knew ;  and  I  have 
never  thought  of  heaven  since  but  that  the 
pure,  sweet,  loving  face  of  my  grandmother 
has  looked  out  of  the  vision. 

And  as  I  thought  of  my  own  memory,  and 
brought  my  mind   back  again  to  contemplate 


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THE   CHURCH  AND    THE  SALOON.  85 

the  horrible  position   of   this   little  barefooted 
lad,    I    asked    myself   what    life    would    have 
meant  to  me   if,  at  ten  years  of  age,  instead 
of   having   a  father  who  was   everything   that 
was  noble  and  Christian  and  manly,  a  mother 
whose   tenderness  was   like   the  love  of   God, 
and    a   grandmother   whose   memory   was   the 
sweetest  attraction  in  the  thought  of  heaven, 
I    had    stood    in    a   dirty,    desolate,    tenement 
house,    my  mother   six   months   in    her   grave 
from  dissipation,  my  father   a  drunken  loafer, 
and    my   grandmother   dead    in    her   drunken 
debauch. 

And  as  my  soul  recoiled  in  horror  from 
such  a  thought,  I  said  to  myself,  "Who  is 
responsible  for  the  desolation  and  the  ruin  of 
this  home?  Who  is  responsible  for  the  rob- 
bing of  this  innocent  lad  of  mother  and 
father  and  grandmother,  and  setting  his  bare 
feet  so  on  the  road  to  destruction  that  the 
chances  are  ninety-nine  out  of  a  hundred 
against  his  ever  coming  to  anything  better 
than  the  life  of  a  drunken  thief?" 

When   I  asked  that   question   I   thought  of 
the   saloon   around   the   corner   of    the   block, 


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\  I 


which  I  had  noticed  was  being  opened  by  the 
barkeeper  as  I  passed  by ;  and  in  a  moment 
my  heart  was  hot  with  indignation  against  the 
saloon-keeper,  and  I  said,  "  He  is  the  man  that 
did  this  vile  work.  Better  that  he  had  never 
been  born  than  to  have  wrought  this  awful 
ruin  on  an  innocent  child !  " 

But  as  I  reflected  I  said,  "  No ;  I  am  mis- 
taken. This  man  could  not  carry  on  his 
saloon  unless  the  city  gave  him  authority  to 
do  so.  The  city  itself  must  have  given  this 
man  permission  to  open  his  saloon  and  sell 
the  liquor  that  is  the  cause  of  all  this  deso- 
lation. 

"But,"  I  asked  myself  again,  "who  gave 
the  city  the  right  to  license  certain  of  its 
citizens  to  sell  this  deadly  poison  which  is  con- 
stantly working  results  as  horrible  as  this  ? " 

And  at  once  my  mind  leaped  to  the  legisla- 
ture, and  I  said,  "  It  is  the  legislature  that 
passed  the  law  authorizing  the  city  to  license 
the  saloon-keeper  to  engage  in  this  traffic 
which  causes  so  much  sorrow  and  misery  and 
death." 

And  still  again  I  said,   "  Who  is  the  legis- 


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THE   CHURCH  AND    THE  SALOON.  8/ 


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lature,  and  who  elects  the  members  of  it 
upon  political  platforms  that  are  pledged  to 
sustain  this  licensed  liquor  traffic,  perpetuat- 
ing and  protecting  these  vile  dens  of  infamy 
and  crime  ?  " 

When  I  had  gotten  that  far  a  sudden  blush 
of  shame  covered  my  face,  and  I  cried  out 
in  anguish  of  heart,  "O  my  God!  Some  of 
my  class-leaders  and  stewards  and  trustees 
had  a  hand  in  this  horrible  tragedy." 

You  may  know  some  way  to  excuse  yourself 
from  complicity  in  the  murderous  work  of  the 
liquor  traffic  when  you  vote  for  politicians  who 
do  not  care  whether  the  saloon  is  voted  up 
or  voted  down,  but  I  do  not!  The  political 
bosses  of  the  leading  political  parties  uo  not 
care  what  havoc  the  saloon  works  so  long  as 
they  may  use  it  as  an  institution  of  blackmail, 
or  as  a  political  cat's-paw ;  but,  in  the  language 
of  Lincoln,  "God  does  care,  and  humanity 
cares,  and  I  care,"  and  by  the  help  of  God 
no  such  politician  or  political  party  shall  ever 
attain  political  power  by  my  ballot! 


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THE   SALOON   AS   A   BUSINESS 
INVESTMENT   FOR   THE 
COMMUNITY. 

The  wise  man  of  the  Scriptures  says,  "  The 
drunkard  shall  come  to  poverty. "     Surely  the 
truthfulness  of   no   Scripture  proverb   can  be 
more  thoroughly  established   by  the   universal 
history  of   mankmd !     We  all   know  that    tor 
the   individual    man    the    use   of    intoxicating 
drinks    is    the    poorest    possible    business    in- 
vestment, and   that   for   multiplied    thousands 
it  is  the  cause  of  complete  disaster  to  every 
hope  of  business  success.     Many  a  promising 
young  man  has  found  his  experience  like  that 
of   the  industrious  young  shoemaker  who  fell 
into  the   habit   of   spending   much   time   in  a 
saloon    near   by.     One  by  one   his    customers 
began  to  desert  him.     When  his  wife  remon- 
strated  with  him  for  so  neglecting  his  work 
for  the  saloon,  he  would  carelessly  reply,  **  Oh, 
I  have  just   been  down  a  little  while  playing 


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THE  SALOON  AS  AN  INVESTMENT.        89 

pool."     His  little  two-year-old  caught  the  re- 
frain,  and    would    often    ask,    "Is  you    goin* 
down  to  play  fool,  papa?"     The  father  tried 
in  vain   to  correct  this  word.     The  child  per- 
sisted in   his  own  pronunciation,   and  day  by 
day  he   accosted   his   father   with,   "Has   you 
been  playin'  fool,  papa?"     This  made  a  deep 
impression   on  the  shoemaker,  as  he  realized 
that  the  question  was  being  answered  in  the 
falling  off  of  his  customers  and  the  growing 
wants  of   the  household.     He   resolved   again 
and   again   to  quit   the  pool-table  and  his  in- 
temperate habits,  but  weakly  allowed  his  ap- 
petites  to  hold   him  still.     Finally,  he  found 
himself  out  of  work,  out  of   money,  and  out 
of  food.     Sitting  on  his  bench  one  afternoon, 
idle  and  despondent,  he  was  heard  to  exclaim, 
"No   work   again   to-day;    what    I'm   to   do  I 
don't    know!"      "Why,    papa,"    prattled    the 
little  boy,  "can't  you  run  down  and  play  fool 
some    more?"     "Oh,  hush!   you    poor  child," 
groaned    his   father,    shame-stricken.     "That's 
just   the  trouble.     Papa   has   played   the   fool 
too  much  already." 

It  is  strange  that  intelligent  men,  as  they 


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often  arc,  should  so  play  the  fool  as  to  spend 
their  hard-earned  wages  and  rob  themselves 
and  their  families  in  order  to  invest  in  another 
man's  greed  or  luxury,  while  they  receive 
nothing  in  return  but  poverty  and  distress. 
Eli  Perkins,  the  humorist,  tells  about  a  man 
named  John  Jones,  who  began  at  the  age 
of  fifteen  to  build  himself  a  monument,  and 
worked  on  it  for  thirty-five  years.  He  worked 
night  and  day,  often  all  night  long,  and  on  the 
Sabbath.  He  seemed  to  be  in  a  great  hurry 
to  get  it  done.  He  spent  all  the  money  he 
earned  upon  it  —  amounting  to  fifty  thousand 
dollars.  Then  he  borrowed  all  he  could ;  and 
when  no  one  would  loan  him  any  more,  he 
would  take  his  wife's  dresses  and  the  bed- 
clothes, and  many  other  valuable  things  in  his 
home,  and  sell  them  to  get  more  money  to 
finish  that  monument.  They  said  he  came 
home  one  day,  and  was  about  to  take  the 
blankets  which  lay  over  his  sleeping  baby  to 
keep  it  warm,  and  his  wife  tried  to  stop  him ; 
he  drew  back  his  fist  and  knocked  her  down, 
and  then  went  away  with  the  blankets,  and 
never  brought  them  back,  and  the  poor  baby 


THE  SALOON  AS  AN  INVESTMENT.        91 

sickened  and  died  from  the  exposure.  At  last 
there  was  nothing  left  in  the  house.  The 
poor  heart-broken  wife  soon  followed  the  baby 
to  the  grave.  Yet  John  Jones  kept  working 
all  the  more  at  the  monument.  Toward  the 
last  his  hands  and  face,  indeed  his  whole 
body,  were  covered  with  scars  which  he  got 
in  laying  up  some  of  the  stones. 

And  this  was  John  Jones's  monument :  On 
the  day  before  he  lay  down   in   his  drunken- 
ness and  froze  to  death,   he  staggered  by  it, 
and   looked   up  at  it  with   his  blear  eyes.     It 
was  erected  on  one  of  the  finest  lots  in  the 
town.     It  was  a  handsome  residence.     It  was 
high    and    large,   with   great    halls   and    velvet 
carpets,  elegant  mirrors,  and  beautiful  furnish- 
ings of    every   kind.      This  was  John  Jones's 
monument!      And    the    man   who   sold    John 
nearly   all   the   whisky   he   drank   lived    there 
with  his  family,  and  the  night  he  froze  to  death 
on  the  icy  sidewalk  they  slept  in  elegant  rooms 
on  the  softest  down.     What  a  fool  a  man  is  to 
build  a  monument  like  that  at  such  a  cost ! 

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anyhow,  who  play  the  fool  by  investing  in 
the  liquor  traffic.  Robert  W.  Garret,  not 
long  ago  the  president  of  the  Baltimore  & 
Ohio  Railroad,  was  an  exceedingly  bright  busi- 
ness man ;  but  he  drank  intoxicating  liquor, 
and  when  it  had  reached  his  tongue  he  did 
not  have  will  power  enough  to  keep  his  busi- 
ness secrets.  A  few  years  ago  he  had  been 
carrying  on  some  important  negotiations  con- 
cerning the  control  of  the  Philadelphia,  Wil- 
mington, &  Baltimore  Railroad,  which  was 
of  the  greatest  importance  to  the  Baltimore 
&  Ohio  system  of  which  he  was  president. 
He  arrived  in  New  York  one  evening  from 
Boston,  feeling  sure  that  the  next  forty-eight 
hours  would  see  his  cherished  business  plans 
consummated ;  and  so  they  would  if  he  had 
not  played  the  fool  with  the  wine-glass.  It 
was  essential,  however,  to  his  success  that 
his  rivals  should  not  know  of  the  transaction 
in  which  he  was  engaged;  and  that  night, 
dining  at  the  hotel  with  a  party  of  business 
men  and  corporation  lawyers,  the  champagne 
passed  freely,  and  Robert  Garret  drank  it 
until   he  became  a  babbling  child,    and  cried 


THE  SALOON  AS  AN  INVESTMENT.        93 

out  to  the  company,  "Congratulate  me! 
Drink  to  the  B.  &  O.,  and  her  outlet  to  Phila- 
delphia. In  two  days  I  will  control  the 
P.,  W.,  &  B." 

There  was  a  man  at  that  table  who  did 
not  drink.  He  knew  a  business  secret,  also, 
when  he  heard  it.  He  excused  himself  early. 
Before  morning  he  was  in  Philadelphia,  talking 
with  the  president  of  the  rival  railroad;  and 
when  the  forty-eight  hours  had  passed.  Gar- 
ret's enemies  had  control  of  the  road  that 
was  of  such  importance  to  him.  Men  who 
ought  to  know,  say  that  that  bottle  of  cham- 
pagne cost  him  and  the  company  which  he 
represented  eight  millions  of  dollars. 

Large  employers  of  labor  are  coming  to 
be  unanimous  in  the  opinion  that  employees 
who  take  intoxicating  drinks  are  a  bad  invest- 
ment. One  of  our  great  railroad  corporations 
recently  gathered  all  the  facts  concerning 
the  men  and  the  conditions  of  every  accident 
which  had  occurred  on  its  lines  for  five  years. 
When  tabulated,  it  appeared  that  forty  per 
cent  of  all  accidents  were  due  altogether,  or 
in  part,  to  the  failure  of  the  men  who  were 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


given  to  drinking  ;  that  eighteen  per  cent  had 
strong  suspicion  of  similar  causes,  if  no  clear 
proof.  In  one  year  over  a  million  dollars 
worth  of  property  was  destroyed  by  the  fail- 
ures of  beer-drinking  engineers  and  switch- 
men on  this  road  alone. 

The  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad  officials,  less 
than  a  year  ago,  issued  the  following  rules:  — 

"The  use  of  intoxicating  drinks  and  frequenting  of 
gambling  places,  or  other  places  of  low  resort,  have 
proven  a  most  fruitful  source  of  trouble  to  railways  as 
well  as  to  individuals.  Recognizing  the  fact,  this  com- 
pany will  exercise  the  most  rigid  scrutiny  in  reference  to 
the  habits  of  employees  in  this  respect. 

"The  use  of  beer  or  other  intoxicating  liquor  by  any 
employee  of  this  company  while  on  duty  is  strictly  pro- 
hibited, and  no  employee  will  be  allowed  to  have  such 
liquors  in  or  about  any  station,  shop,  or  other  premises 
of  this  company  at  any  time  or  under  any  circumstances. 

"Any  conductor,  trainman,  engineer,  fireman,  switch- 
man, or  other  employee  who  is  known  to  use  intoxicating 
liquors,  or  frequent  gambling  places,  or  other  places  of 
low  rc'^'ort,  either  while  on  or  off  duty,  will  be  promptly 
and  permanently  discharged  from  the  service  of  this  com- 
pany." 

When  these  rules  were  issued  the  saloon- 
keepers and  bar-rooms  along  the  line  of  the 
road  threatened  to  boycott  the  railroad  if  they 


THE  SALOON  AS  AN  INVESTMENT.        95 

attempted  to  enforce  them.  In  reply,  the  gen- 
eral manager  said:  '*I  notice  the  saloon-keepers 
are  threatening  to  boycott  us.  Well,  let  them 
go  ahead.  We  don't  care  anything  about  that. 
The  loss  of  their  business  will  not  hurt  us  a 
particle.  It  does  not  amount  to  enough  to 
pay  one-tenth  part  the  expense  resulting  from 
one  bad  accident." 

But  it  is  just  as  bad  an  investment  for  a 
city  as  it  is  for  an  individual  or  a  railroad 
company.  In  our  modern  cities  the  saloon 
problem  from  a  business  standpoint,  as  well 
as  on  the  political  side,  is  the  most  important 
question  before  the  community. 

Take  the  city  of  New  York  last  year  as  an 
example.  As  we  are  not  to  be  tied  up  in  an 
embrace  with  her  until  January,  1898,  we  can 
still  hold  her  off  and  look  on.  According  to  a 
very  carefully  tabulated  list  of  statistics,  there 
were  sold  in  the  city  of  New  York  between 
Jan.  I,  1895,  and  Jan.  i,  1896,  4,805,167  bar- 
rels,  or  168,960,177  gallons,  of  beer,  ale,  and 
porter;  which,  at  a  conservative  wholesale 
valuation  of  ^5.50  per  barrel,  cost  the  saloon- 
keepers   who    sold    them    ;^26,428,4i8.      The 


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SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


people  who  drank  this  vast  quantity  of  malt 
liquor  paid  nearly  four  times  that  sum  for  it, 
or  $105,410,208.  Thus  New  York  city  spent 
more  money  for  beer  last  year,  says  the  New 
York  Journal^  to  which  I  am  indebted  for  this 
table  of  figures,  than  is  computed  in  the  for- 
tune of  the  richest  living  American.  In  the 
same  city  last  year  200,000  cases  of  cham- 
pagne were  consumed,  at  a  cost  to  the  people 
who  drank  it  of  1^5,300,000.  Of  other  wines, 
brandies,  and  cordials,  exclusive  of  California 
products,  coming  by  rail,  New  York  consumed 
2,990,865  gallons.  These  cost  about  1^27,000,- 
000  to  the  consumers.  In  addition  to  all  this, 
51,000  barrels  of  domestic  whisky  were  con- 
sumed during  the  year,  and  48,000  barrels  of 
domestic  alcohol  were  blended  with  it ;  and 
enough  other  liquids  were  added  to  make 
New  York's  total  whisky -guzzle  during  1895  at 
least  130,000  barrels,  which,  when  sold  by  the 
glass,  amounted  to  over  ;$ 2,000,000.  Thus  last 
year,  in  spite  of  the  hard  times,  the  citizens 
of  New  York  drank  5,051,000  barrels,  or 
170,531,000  gallons,  of  vinous  and  spirituous 
liquors,  at  a  cost  of  $139,710,208. 


THE  SALOON  AS  AiV  INVESTMENT.        97 

If  all  this  liquid  were  placed  in  a  tank,  you 
could  immerse  in   it    Trinity  Church,   and  its 
spire  would  be  covered  over  and  lost  out  of 
sighn     And  if  you  were  to  tap  it  with  a  faucet 
arranged  to   run  a  gallon  a  minute,  it  would 
take  over  ninety  years  for  it  to  run  out.     And 
if  you  were  to  make  another  tank  for  the  malt 
liquors    New   York   city  drank  last  year,  you 
could  drop  the  New  York  City  Hall  into  the 
tank,  and  never  know  it  was  there.     Indeed, 
you   could   take   the   great    Philadelphia    City 
Hall  and  put  it  in  beside  it,  and  it  would  cover 
both  of  them. 

But,  some  man  says,  the  liquor  traffic  pays 
an  enormous  revenue  into  the  city  treasury, 
and  gives  a  great  many  people  employment. 
Just  now  we  are  hearing  a  good  deal  of  this 
sort  of  talk.  We  are  told  that  the  Raines  bill, 
even,  is  going  to  throw  out  of  employment 
several  thousands  of  people,  and  the  question 
is  put  forward  in  such  a  way  that  many  people 
are  blinded  by  it,  and  made  to  believe  that  the 
saloon  business  is,  after  all,  a  profitable  in- 
vestment  for  the  city.  I  remember  that  dur- 
ing the  years  I  resided  in  Boston,  in  the  vote 


98 


SEVEjV  times  around  JERICHO. 


every  year  on  the  license  question,  this  was 
the  perennial  argument  —  that  if  the  city  were 
to  go  no-license,  and  no  revenue  in  the  way 
of  license  fees  came  into  the  treasury  from 
the  liquor  traffic,  taxes  would  be  greatly  in- 
creased. 

There  could  not  be  anything  more  abso- 
lutely false  and  more  easily  disproved  by  in- 
disputable facts  than  this  argument.  The  rev- 
enue received  by  the  New  York  city  treas- 
ury last  year  was  as  follows :  7,000  liquor 
saloons  paid  a  tax  of  $200  each,  amounting 
to  $1,400,000;  thirteen  hotels  paid  $500  each, 
or  $6,500;  267  other,  smaller  hotels,  paid  $300 
each,  or,  in  the  aggregate,  $80,100;  450  ale 
and  beer  saloons  paid  $50  apiece,  or  $22,500; 
1,000  grocers  each  paid  $200,  or  $200,000 ; 
amounting   in  the   grand  total   to  $1,729,100. 

Now  let  us  take  up  the  question  of  the  labor 
furnished  by  the  liquor  traffic :  60,000  persons 
were  employed  in  the  breweries,  and  these 
men  are  supposed  to  support  about  240,000 
others;  about  26,190  persons  were  employed 
in  the  wholesale  and  retail  sale  of  liquor  in 
the  city,   and   these  are  supposed   to   support 


THE  SALOON-  AS  AN  INVESTMENT.        99 

about    104,160   others.      Thus   liquor    is    the 
support  of  about  344,000  people. 

Now   look  at   the   cost.     We   have   already 
shown  that    the  malt  liquors  cost  the  people 
over  $105,000,000,  and  the  vinous  and  spirit- 
uous  liquors    more   than    $139,000,000.      But 
look   at   its  cost  in    directly  looking  after   its 
crime  and   misery.     There  were   during    1895 
in   the  city  of   New  York  31,897  arrests   for 
drunkenness;  and  8,414  of  these  were  women. 
There  were   also   9,256  arrests   for  violations 
of  the  excise  laws.     The  cost  of  these  41,153 
arrests,  including  subsequent  trials  and  impris- 
onments,   was   about    $3,/ 03,770  — more   than 
twice  as  much  for  the  direct  arrest  for  drunk- 
enness and  violations  of  the  excise  law  than 
.the  city  received  for  all  its  license  income  for 
the  entire  year.     This  does  not  take  into  con- 
sideration at  all  the  crime  of  every  sort   that 
is  caused   by  strong  drink— the  assaults  and 
murders  and  every  species  of  crime  that  finds 
its  way  into  the  courts.     Neither  does  it  take 
into  consideration  the  cost  for  the  insane,  for 
the  paupers,  and   for   the  pauper  sick  in    the 
hospitals,   who  are  the  victims  of   the  traffic. 


lOO        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JEKJCHO. 

If  this  were  counted  in,  it  could  be  easily 
shown  that  for  every  dollar  received  into  the 
New  York  city  treasury  last  year  from  the 
licensing  of  the  liquor  traffic,  her  citizens  who 
are  engaged  in  honest  trade  had  to  make  up 
not  less  than  ten  dollars  to  pay  for  the  crime 
and  misery  brought  about  by  the  infamous 
business. 

These  statistics  do  not  portray  before  us 
the  multitudes  of  young  men  who  have  be- 
come idle  loafers  because  of  the  existence  of 
the  saloons.  They  cannot  tell  us  of  the 
homes  which  were  happy  and  contented  that 
have  been  filled  with  strife  and  sorrow.  They 
do  not  show  us  the  great  army  of  children 
that  have  gone  hungry  and  ragged,  robbed  of 
childhood's  rightful  innocence  and  joy.  They 
do  not  reveal  the  broken-hearted  mothers,  the 
despairing  wives,  nor  tell  us  of  the  men  and 
women  who,  having  struggled  and  been  de- 
feated, have  at  last  given  up  hope  and  taken 
their  own  lives.  Alas !  no  figures  could  prop- 
erly convey  the  untold  sorrow  which  flows 
from  this  accursed  business.  No  painter's 
brush  nor  orator's  tongue  was  ever  yet  skilful 


I 


I' 


THE  SALOON  AS  AN  INVESTMENT.      lOI 

or  eloquent  enough  to  properly  paint  the  pic- 
ture of  the  heart-breaking  sorrow  and  waste 
of  humanity  itself  —  the  richest  of  all  our 
treasures  —  seen  in  this  foolish  and  bank- 
rupting investment  our  American  cities  are 
making  in  licensing  the  liquor  saloon. 


U 
ft 


102        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


THE   SOCIAL  WINE-GLASS. 


I 


There  is  an  old  and  oft -quoted  Scripture  — 
"Woe  unto  him  that  giveth  his  neighbor  drinl<, 
that  puttcst  thy  bottle  to  him,  and  makest  him 
drunken  also  "  —  that  is  more  frequently  than 
anywhere  else  applied  to  the  saloon-keeper, 
but  is  equally  applicable  to  the  social  drinking 
customs  of  society.  While  the  saloon  is  the 
center  and  hotbed  of  the  drink  habit,  it  is 
also  true  that  a  great  many  people  who  at 
first  would  never  think  of  such  a  thing  as  go- 
ing to  the  saloon  to  drink,  become  ensnared 
in  the  fatal  habit  through  social  enticements 
among  their  neighbors  and  friends.  Many 
people  make  the  fatal  mistake  of  supposing 
that  it  is  the  vile  atmosphere  of  the  saloon, 
and  the  associations  there,  that  make  the  drink 
dangerous.  The  danger  is  in  the  intoxicating 
liquor  itself,  which,  taken  under  any  circum- 
stances, arouses  the  appetite  and  creates  the 
desire  which  never  would  have  been  awakened 


THE  SOCIAL    WINE-GLASS. 


103 


but  by  the  taste  of  liquor  itself.  There  are 
many  natures  peculiarly  susceptible  to  social 
influence,  to  whom  drinking  under  the  excite- 
ments of  social  intercourse  is  far  more  danger- 
ous than  it  would  be  alone  in  a  liquor  saloon. 

The   dangerous   fallacy   of    moderate   social 
drinking  is,  that  it  assumes  that  a  little  drink- 
ing is  safe,  whereas  it   is  the  first  glass  that 
breaks  down  the  wall  of  habit  and  opens  the 
way  for  all  the   dissipation   and   drunkenness 
that   may  follow.      Dr.  Charles  L.  Thompson 
of   New  York   tells   a   little   story  of   an   old 
preacher  who   used  to  introduce  the  marriaire 
ceremony   with    these    words:    "John,    matri- 
mony is  a  blessing  to  a  few,  a  curse  to  many, 
and  an  uncertainty  to  us  all.     John,  will  you 
venture  > "     However  that  may  be,  all  sensible 
men  who  keep  an  open   eye   for  observation, 
must  agree  with   the  good   doctor   that   total 
abstinence  is  a  blessing  to  thousands,  a  curse 
to  nobody,  and  right  for  everybody  ;  while,  on 
the  other  hand,  the  most  optimistic  moderate 
drinker  is  compelled  to  say,  "  We  know  drink- 
ing is  a  curse  to  thousands,  safety  for  a  few, 
and  an  uncertainty  to  us  all ;  but  let  us  chance 


If 


104        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 

it."  Many  do  chance  it  to  their  lasting  sorrow 
and  regret.  The  only  safe  course  is  to  shun 
the  beginnings  of  the  downward  path. 

How  strangely  inconsistent  we  are  when  we 
m'^.ke  our  laws  licensing  men  to  sell  liquor  to 
sober  men  who  have  never  been  hurt  as  yet 
by  strong  drink,  and  make  it  a  crime  for  them 
to  sell  it  to  those  who  have  already  practically 
destroyed  themselves.  A  young  man  entered 
the  bar-room  of  a  village  tavern  and  called  for 
a  drink. 

•*  No,"  said  the  landlord  ;  "you  have  had  too 
much  already.  You  have  been  raving  mad 
once,  and  I  cannot  sell  you  any  more." 

The  poor  drunkard  stepped  aside  to  make 
room  for  a  couple  of  young  men  who  had  just 
entered  ;  and  tne  landlord  waited  upon  them 
very  politely.  The  other  stood  by  sullenly ; 
and  when  they  had  finished  he  walked  up  to 
the  landlord  and  said:  — 

"  Six  years  ago,  at  that  age,  I  stood  where 
these  young  men  are  now.  I  was  a  man  with 
fair  prospects.  Now,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
eight,  I  am  a  wreck  in  body  and  mind.  You 
led  me  to  drink.     In  this  room  I  formed  the 


THE  SOCIAL    WINE-GLASS. 


105 


habit  that  has  been  my  ruin.  Now,  sell  me  a 
few  more  glasses  and  your  work  will  be  done ! 
I  will  be  done!  I  will  soon  be  out  of  the 
way  ;  there  is  no  hope  for  me.  But  they  can 
be  saved;  they  may  be  men  again.  Do  not 
sell  it  to  them.  Sell  it  to  me,  and  let 
me  die,  and  the  world  will  be  rid  of  me  ; 
but,  for  Heaven's  sake  don't  sell  any  more 
to  them ! " 

Over  in  Massachusetts,  a  few  years  ago,  a 
man  who  was   serving   a   life   sentence   for  a 
crime  committed  under  the  influence  of  strono- 
drink  gave  such  evidence  of  having  been  thor- 
oughly converted   to  a  new  life  of   righteous 
purpose    that   the    governor    and    his   council 
were   urged    to   grant    him   a   pardon.      They 
finally  decided  to   let   him  out    on  parole,  on 
condition  that  he  was  never  again  in  his  life 
to  enter  a   liquor  saloon  or  any  place  where 
strong  drink  was  sold.     On  his  breaking  this 
rule   he  was   liable   to   be   arrested   anywhere 
and   brought   back   again   to   the  penitentiary 
to  serve  out  his  life  sentence.     And  yet  that 
same  governor  and  council  were  every  one  of 
them  heartily  in  favor  of  licensing  these  same 


I06        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 

saloons  to  sell  to  other  young  men  who  were 
yet  untouched  and  unscarred  the  same  dan- 
gerous drink  which  had  ruined  this  man,  and 
branded  him  with  a  prison  record  for  life. 
When  will  we  have  wisdom  enough  to  know 
that  health  itself  is  better  than  medicine,  and 
that  it  is  infinitely  better  to  protect  a  man 
from  becoming  a  drunkard  than  it  is  to  under- 
take to  rescue  him  after  he  has  fallen  ? 

Young  people  need  to  have  the  emphasis 
put  upon  the  truth  that  the  drinking  of  wine 
and  beer  is  an  unnatural  and  artificial  habit, 
and  to  decline  such  at  a  public  dinner  or  at 
a  wedding  is  not  a  thing  that  needs  to  be 
apologized  for,  as  though  one  had  done  some- 
thing not  in  good  social  form.  A  pretty  story 
is  told  of  Lady  Macdonald,  the  wife  of  the  late 
brilliant  Premier  of  Canada,  who  has  long 
been  a  total  abstainer.  Another  lady  of  high 
social  position  met  Lady  Macdonald  at  dinner 
one  day,  and  being  surprised  to  see  that  she 
took  no  wine,  at  length  asked, — 

"  Did  you  not  set  out  wine  when  you  en- 
tertained the  Marquis  of  Lome?" 

"  Never,"  was  the  prompt  reply. 


>ii! 


THE  SOCIAL    WINE-GLASS. 


107 


"But  did  you  not  feel  that  you  must  apolo- 
gize ? " 

"Certainly  not.  Wine  is  not  a  natural  bev- 
erage, and  so  should  rather  come  in  than  go 
out  with  an  apology." 

This  sensible  answer,  coupled  with  the  in- 
fluence of  so  high  an  example,  led  the  other 
lady  to  become  a  total  abstainer  also. 

Mr.  Edward  W.  Bok,  the  prosperous  young 
litterateur,  in  giving  advice  to  young  men,  says 
that  he  has  never  touched  a  drop  of  wine  at 
public  dinners,  and  yet  has  never  been  made 
to  feel  that  he  was  placed  at  a  disadvantage. 
"Indeed,"  says  Mr.  Bok,  "I  am  under  the 
impression  that  a  young  m.an  who  refuses  wine 
is  always  at  a  distinct  advantage." 

The  editor  of  the  California  Christian  Ad- 
vocate was  entertained  on  one  occasion  in 
that  State  at  the  home  of  a  wealthy  judge. 
During  his  stay  his  host  took  him  on  a  de- 
lightful drive  through  the  surrounding  country. 
Passing  a  handsome  country  residence,  the 
judge  stopped  to  chat  a  few  moments  with 
the  owner,  who,  with  some  guests,  chanced 
to  bv^  at  the  front  gate.     After  introductions, 


I08        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


the  judge  and  his  friend  wtre  finally  pre- 
vailed upon  to  enter  the  house  for  a  brief 
rest.  Californians  are  very  hospitable,  and  so 
it  was  not  long  before  everybody  was  invited 
into  the  spacious  dining-room  for  some  re- 
freshments. Two  bottles  of  champagne  were 
soon  on  the  table,  and  the  editor  looked  at 
his  friend  the  judge  to  see  what  he  would 
do.  His  face  was  a  curious  study;  he  seemed 
to  be  struggling  with  conscience  and  a  false 
sense  of  courtesy  to  the  temporary  host.  There 
was  no  time  to  lose,  and  the  editor  said  re- 
spectfully, but  decidedly,  **  No,  thank  you ; 
I  will  take  a  glass  of  water." 

The  judge  instantly  stammered  out,  "  I'll 
take  water  also,  please." 

There  was  a  moment's  consternation — only 
a  moment  —  and  good  breeding  came  to  the 
rescue  of  the  lady  of  the  house.  "Do  you 
ever  drink  milk.''"  she  said  in  a  most  pleasant 
voice.     "We  have  such  lovely  Jersey  milk." 

The  editor  and  the  judge  both  assured  her 
in  a  breath  that  they  liked  Jersey  milk  exceed- 
ingly. And  one  of  the  daughters  ran  to  bring 
the  unskimmed  morning's  milk  from  the  cool, 


THE  SOCIAL    WINE-GLASS. 


109 


sweet  dairy.  The  host  and  the  other  guests 
drank  the  champagne;  the  hostess  and  her 
daughters  joined  the  judge  and  the  editor  in 
taking  the  delicious  Jersey  milk. 

When  they  were  out  on  the  road  again  the 
judge  drew  a  long  breath  and  said,  "This 
miserable  wine !  I  wish  they'd  let  one  alone, 
and  never  bring  it  out!"  Then  the  editor 
had  his  reward  for  a  good  example. 

No  one  is  able  to  measure  the  far-reachin"- 
power  of  an  example,  whether  for  good  or  for 
evil.     Lady  Henry  Somerset  hcts  told  how  she 
was   first    drawn   into   temperance   work.      In 
her  youth  she  had  seen  two  children,  a  boy 
and    a  girl,  sip  wine   at   their  father's   table, 
and  heard  the  guests  laugh  at  the  precocious 
little  ones.     She   lived  to  see  the  boy  go  to 
a  drunkard's    grave   when    twenty-four   years 
old.     "But  what  of  the  girl.?"    she  went  on. 
"The   girl  was   happily  married,  and   became 
the  mother  of  lovely  children.     The  fatal  seed 
had  been  sown,  however.     The  young  mother 
became   a   slave   to   strong    drink.      I   prayed 
with  her  and  wept  with  her.     She  asked  me 
one  day  if  I  would  be  a  total  abstainer  if  she 


no        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


renounced  strong  drink  forever.  The  propo- 
sition was  a  strange  one,  and  I  asked  twenty- 
four  hours  for  consideration.  When  I  saw 
her  again  she  said  it  was  too  late.  I  felt 
that  if  I  had  given  her  promptly  the  answer 
she  should  have  received,  she  might  have 
been  saved.  To-day,"  continued  Lady  Somer- 
set, **  her  home  is  shattered,  and  I  resolved 
to  do  in  the  future  all  I  could  for  God  and 
humanity." 

Dr.  Lyman  Abbott,  commenting  on  that 
graphic  Scripture  which  characterizes  the  in- 
fluence of  strong  drink  by  saying,  "The  mean 
man  is  bowed  down,  and  the  great  man  is 
humbled,"  declares,  "The  low-bred  fellow 
drinks  his  fiery  liquor,  and  wallows  in  the 
gutter ;  the  high-bred  and  rich  say  that  they 
can  mind  their  own  business,  and  go  to  the 
same  disgusting  squalor.  It  is  the  greatest 
of  mysteries  why  any  respectable  man  should 
do  what  he  knows  will  make  him  a  fool.  No, 
it  is  not  the  greatest  of  mysteries.  There  is 
a  greater  one  —  one  that  puzzles  me  more  and 
more.  It  is  this :  How  can  any  one  who  is 
strong  hesitate  for  one  moment   to  say,   *0f 


THE  SOCIAL    WINE-GLASS. 


Ill 


course   I   will    give   all    the    influence    of   my 
example   to   prevent    the   weak    from    getting 
into  habits  which  will  make  them  devils  rather 
than  noble  men '  ?     Many,  otherwise  good  and 
helpful,  have  it  in  their  power  to  make  a  new 
and  better  order  in  society ;   they  might  have 
the   joy   of    seeing    multitudes   who    are   now 
going  straight  toward  a  hell  on  earth,  living 
as  becomes  God's  children,  if  they  would  only 
aid   the    weak   by   the   influence   of   their   ex- 
ample.    But    intemperance   is  not   chiefly  the 
vice  of  the  poor ;   it  is  pre-eminently  the  vice 
of   the   rich.     Who   fill  the  Keeley  Cures    all 
over  the  country?     Most  of  the  inmates  are 
men    of   wealth    and    social    position.      On    an 
Atlantic  steamer  last  summer  two  men  were 
the  pity  of  the  passengers.     One,  a  rich  young 
Englishman,   the  best-dressed   man    on   board, 
would  come  to  the  table  like  a  driveling  idiot. 
He  could  not  have  eaten  his  food  had  it  not 
been  for  the  motherly  kindness  of  his  neigh- 
bor —  a  good  woman  from  Boston  —  who  some- 
times  almost    put    the   food    into   his   mouth. 
The    other   was    a    New   York    Congressman, 
who  has  a  fine  summer-house  on  the  Hudson. 


112         SEVEN  TIMIIS  AROUND  JERICHO. 

He  actually  came  on  board  in  a  state  of  de- 
lirium tremens.  *  * 

No  tongue  nor  pen  ever  yet  had  skill  enough 
to  adequately  describe  the  desolation  which 
social  drinking  is  constantly  working  in  the 
home-life  of  the  people.  Only  a  few  months 
ago  in  the  city  of  New  York  the  wife  of  a 
distinguished  artist,  who,  with  her  husband, 
a  few  years  ago,  was  received  into  the  best 
society  of  the  metropolis,  stood  before  the 
magistrate  to  answer  to  the  charge  of  drunk- 
enness. She  had  been  found  the  evening  be- 
fore lying  upon  the  sidewalk  near  her  home ; 
and,  as  blood  was  flowing  from  a  wound  over 
her  eye,  a  policeman  sent  her  to  a  hospital 
in  an  ambulance.  The  physicians  at  the  hos- 
pital soon  saw  that  the  woman's  injuries  were 
slight,  but  that  she  was  intoxicated.  She  was 
kept  over  night,  and  the  next  morning  ar- 
raigned before  the  magistrate. 

She  is  only  a  middle-aged  woman  now,  and 
in  her  youth  was  remarkable  for  her  beauty. 
When  her  case  was  called,  her  husband  joined 
her  before  the  judge,  who,  addressing  the 
woman,  said,  "You  are  charged  with  intoxi- 
cation.    What  have  you  to  say  ? " 


THE  SOCIAL    WINE-GLASS. 


"3 


The  woman  paid  no  attention  to  the  inquiry 
of  the  court.  Instead,  she  turned  to  her  hus- 
band, and  in  a  weak,  unsteady  voice  said, 
"Take  me  away,  Bruce;  I  am  frightened. 
Please  take  me  home  to  the  children." 

Her  husband,  however,  never  looked  at  her, 
but  with   his  gaze   fixed   on   the   face   of   the 
magistrate,    and    while   his    lips   quivered    and 
his   eyes  filled   with    tears,  exclaimed,    "Your 
Honor,    I    don't    know   what   to   do   with   my 
wife,  for  she  is  an  habitual  drunkard.     1  have 
done  all  in  my  power  to  bring  her  to  herself, 
and  she  and  my  friends  have  aided  me,   but 
all  without  avail.     She  has  been  in  all  kinds 
of  institutions  and   sanitariums;  private  phy- 
sicians have  treated  her ;  and  she  is  no  better 
to-day  than  she  was  years  ago.     I   can  think 
of    nothing   better   than    that   she   be  placed 
under  restraint  "  —  ^ 

"Oh,  no,  Bruce!"  the  woman  broke  in  at 
this  point,  throwing  her  arms  around  her  hus- 
band's neck,  and  beginning  to  cry.  "Don't 
send  me  away;  don't  keep  me  here  another 
minute.  If  you  do,  I  will  surely  go  crazy. 
Please,  please  take  me  home," 


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114        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JEKICIIO. 

"  I  can't  take  you  home,"  he  said.  "  You 
have  wrecked  our  home ;  you  have  wrecked 
my  life." 

"Don't  say  that,"  Mrs.  Crane  replied.  "Oh, 
for  the  love  of  God,  don't  send  me  to  prison  ! 
Set  me  free,  and  I'll  go  right  to  mother  in 
Troy  —  or,  at  least,  I'll  go  just  as  soon  as  I 
have  seen  the  children ;  but,  whatever  you  do, 
don't  send  me  to  prison." 

**  You  have  disgraced  your  children ;  you 
have  disgraced  me,"  said  the  broken-hearted 
husband. 

"No,  no,  darling;  don't  say  that!"  the 
woman  exclaimed,  while  tears  rolled  faster 
down  her  cheeks;  "don't  say  that!  for  you 
know  how  I  love  you,  and  how  you  love  me. 
Take  me  away  at  once." 

At  this  the  husband  began  to  relent,  and, 
covering  his  face  with  his  hands,  he  sobbed 
aloud.     That  made  his  wife  cry  more  bitterly. 

"Try  me  just  once  more,  Bruce,  dear,"  the 
woman  went  on,  realizing,  evidently,  that  this 
was  her  only  chance,  if  she  had  any.  "And, 
as  I  live,  I'll  never  taste  liquor  again.  Hear 
me  plead  to  you,  dear ;  I  plead  as  I  never  did 


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before,  and  as  I  never  will  again.  Oh,  try  me 
just  once  more  — for  my  sake,  and  the  chil- 
dren's  sake ;  for  the  sake  of  my  unborn  child, 
for  "  — 

But  here  the  magistrate  broke  in,  "No," 
he  said,  addressing  the  husband,  "you  have 
a  duty  to  perform,  and  you  must  face  it  like 
a  man.  It  is  a  strange  duty  and  a  harsh  one, 
perhaps,  but  it   is  your  duty,  nevertheless." 

As  the  magistrate  committed  her  to  jail,  and 
directed  the  officer  to  take  her  away,  she 
shrieked,  "  Oh,  don't  do  that !  Don't  let  them 
keep  me  !  Take  me  away;  for  God's  sake,  take 
me  away  ! " 

Her  husband  could  do  nothing,  however, 
and  court  officers  stepped  forward  to  lead  the 
woman  away ;  but  scarcely  had  they  touched 
her  when  she  fell  fainting  to  the  floor.  Then 
she  was  carried  from  the  room. 

Later,  when  she  was  seen  in  prison,  she  said, 
"  Had  it  not  been  for  my  drinking,  our  home 
would  have  been  without  a  care.  My  husband 
and  I  are  devoted  to  each  other,  but  liquor  has 
made  trouble  ever  since  the  year  after  our  mar- 
riage.     I  was  the  widow  of  a  wholesale  jeweller, 


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Il6        SEVEN   TIMES  AROUND  JEKICIIO. 

whose  name  was  X ,  when  I  met  Mr. , 

and  I  never  drank  then.  But  shortly  before 
my  first  child  was  born  a  physician  advised 
me  to  take  stimulants,  and  that  started  it. 
Now  liquor  has  got  the  better  of  me." 

How  true  the  warning  of  Scripture,  "At 
the  last  it  biteth  like  a  serpent  and  stingeth 
like  an  adder  "  !  All  the  brilliant  and  gener- 
ous words  that  have  been  used  in  connection 
with  the  social  glass  are  false  and  deceptive. 
Amos  R.  Wells,  with  poetic  insight,  uncovers 
the  delusion  of  these  misplaced  adjectives:  — 


"A  'generous'  liquor!     Ah,  if  generous 
Let  it  return,  of  what  it  steals  from  us, 
At  least  one-tenth !  One  soul  for  every  ten 
In  mercy  let  it  render  back  again; 
One-tenth  of  all  the  homes,  the  land,  the  gold, 
The  peace,  the  joy,  its  close-mouthed  coffers  hold  1 
You  sneer,  you  generous  liquor !     Well  you  know 
All  things  to  get,  and  nothing  to  let  go. 
•Generous,'  forsooth! 


*A  royal  bumper!'     'Royal*?     Yes,  a  king 

Whose  reign  means  serfdom.     There's  no  sacred  thing 

This  *  royal  '  liquor  fails  to  override 

And  whelm  in  fiendish  lust  and  hateful  pride. 

His  regnant  scepter  bends,  and  at  the  sign 

Men  yield  themselves  the  crawling  slaves  of  wine. 


THE  SOCIAL    WINE-GLASS.  WJ 

Ills  throne  is  built  of  broken  hearts,  his  crown 
Gleams  red  with  stars  from  heaven  fallen  down. 
*  Royal  '  indeed  ! 

•  A  sparkling  goblet ! '     Yes,  yes !  —  all  ablaze 
With  horrid  hell's  most  haggard,  ghastly  rays,  — 
The  light  of  happy  eyes  turned  to  despair, 

The  flash  of  hate,  the  eating  flame  of  care, 
The  glitter  of  a  madman's  awful  eyes, 
The  dying  light  that  stabs  one  as  it  dies, — 
Hence  does  the  'sparkling  goblet'  get  the  glow 
And  radiant  glances  that  delight  men  so. 
'Sparkling,'  forsooth! 

•  Strong  '  drink,  '  strong  '  drink  !    Well  may  we  call  it  strong 
That  drags  so  many  myriad  men  headlong 

Down  wo's  most  awful  path  to  dreadful  death. 
That  shatters  happy  households  at  a  breath. 
And  fastens  with  its  hot  and  crooked  hands 
On  temple  roof  and  spire  that  loftiest  stands, 
While  marts  and  studios  and  statesmen's  halls 
It  levels  to  the  slime  wherein  it  crawls. 
'  Strong  '  drink,  indeed  I 


And  *  rare  old  spirits !  '     Ah,  how  many  a  prayer 
Beseeches  God  that  they  became  more  rare! 
Rare  —  till  the  widow's  tears  less  common  are  ; 
Rare  —  till  dismantled  homes  are  fewer  far  ; 
Rare  — till  the  children's  sobs,  the  wives'  despair. 
The  drunkards'  dreadful  anguish,  grow  more  rare! 
Brothers  to  work!  to  work  with  hand  and  will, 
And  make  '  these  rare  old  spirits '  rarer  still ! 
God  for  the  right !  " 


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Il8        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


THE   PRESENT   STATUS   AND    OUT- 
LOOK  OF  THE  TEMPERANCE 
MOVEMENT. 

The  mariiicr  finds  it  important  to  take 
frequent  reckoning  of  his  position,  and  find 
out  just  how  far  he  has  proceeded  on  his 
voyage,  and  calculate  the  probabilities  of  his 
arrival  in  port  with  his  cargo.  It  is  well 
for  workers  in  a  great  reform  movement  like 
that  which  has  for  its  purpose  the  over- 
throw of  the  dram-shop  and  the  bringing 
about  an  age  of  sobriety,  to  every  now  and 
then  take  reckoning,  and  find  out  if  they 
be  advancing  toward  the  haven  of  their 
hope.  Let  us  take  notice  of  certain  signifi- 
cant landmarks  which  will  tell  us  whether 
we  are  making  progress  or  not. 

First  of  all,  it  is  interesting  to  notice  the 
position  of  the  church  at  present  as  related 
to  the  past.  And  in  that  examination  we 
shall    find    very   much    that    is    encouraging. 


TJIE   OUTLOOA'  OF  lEMPERANCE.        I  I9 

Dr.  Danie]  Steele  of  Boston,  who  is  still 
with  us,  has  related  to  me  that  when  he 
was  a  boy  his  uncle  took  him  with  him  on 
one  occasion  to  a  new  Congregational  church 
where  the  pews  were  to  be  auctioned  off. 
Dr.  Steele  says  that  at  first  the  bidding  was 
very  lively,  and  the  seats  were  sold  off  at 
good  prices,  but  after  a  while  there  came 
quite  a  lull  in  the  proceedings ;  and  in  order 
to  arouse  the  animation  of  the  people,  a  big 
demijohn  of  liquor  was  brought  out,  and  the 
drinks  passed  round,  and  very  soon  the  bid- 
ding was  going  on  again  at  a  lively  rate.  It 
is  not  possible  to  imagine  the  opening  of  a 
church  on  that  line  to-day. 

Anothei  elderly  New  England  minister  re- 
lated to  me,  not  long  since,  that  when  he 
was  fourteen  years  of  age  his  father  went 
with  him  to  their  pastor  with  the  purpose 
of  having  the  pastor  question  him  in  regard 
to  his  knowledge  of  the  Bible  and  of  spirit- 
ual truth,  with  reference  to  his  reception  into 
the  church  as  a  member.  After  he  had  been 
duly  examined,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  pas- 
tor, that    worthy  old   gentleman  went   to   his 


I20        SEVEN   TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


closet  and  brought  out  a  bottle  of  liquor  and 
three  glasses,  and  poured  out  one  for  the 
father,  one  for  the  fourteen-year-old  lad  he 
had  just  been  examining  for  reception  into 
the  church,  and  one  for  himself,  and  the 
three  drank  together. 

Such  incidents,  which  could,  of  course,  be 
multiplied  many  times  out  of  the  reminis- 
cences of  multitudes  of  men  and  women  who 
are  still  alive,  show  us  more  clearly  than 
any  argument  the  remarkable  advancement 
in  temperance  sentiment  in  the  church  in 
the  past  sixty  or  seventy  years.  To-day  it 
goes  as  a  matter  of  course  that  the  pas- 
tors of  the  Methodist,  Baptist,  Presbyterian, 
Congregational,  and  most  other  Protestant 
churches  everywhere  through  the  land,  can 
be  depended  upon  as  temperance  helpers, 
and  do  really  carry  the  great  burden  of  the 
weight  of  the  temperance  reformation.  Per- 
haps nothing  is  more  significant  along  this 
line  than  the  remarkable  advancement  of  the 
priesthood  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church, 
which  is  beginning  to  give  the  greatest 
promise   of    being   in    the   future   one   of    the 


THE   OUTLOOK  OF   TEMPERANCE.        121 

Strongest   divisions  of   the  great   army  which 
is  to  overthrow  the  saloon. 

It  is  also  very  interesting  to  note  the  ad- 
vance  made  in  temperance    sentiment  in  the 
position   taken  by  temperance  societies.      To- 
day all   our  temperance    work  worthy  of   the 
name    aims   at    total   abstinence   from   all    in- 
toxicating liquor  as   a  beverage.     Our  organi- 
zations,   whether    they    be    secret    lodges    or 
open  clubs,  make  that  the  fundamental  basis 
of   their   operations.       It   did    not    use   to    be 
so.     The  first  regularly  organized  temperance 
society,  with  a  regular  constitution,  of  which 
we  have  any  record  in  the  world,  was  organ- 
ized   on    the    30th    day    of    April,     1808,    in 
a  village   schoolhouse   in   this    State   of   New 
York.      Colonel    Sydney    Berry    was    its   first 
president.      A   part   of    its    constitution    read 
as  follows  :  — 


"Article  IV.  No  member  shall  drink  rum,  gin, 
whisky,  wine,  or  any  distilled  spirits,  or  compositions 
of  the  same,  or  any  of  them,  except  by  adv'ce  of  a 
physician,  or  in  case  of  actual  disease;  also  except- 
ing wine  at  public  dinners,  under  a  penalty  of  25  cents ; 
provided  that  this  article  shall  not  infringe  on  any  re- 
ligious ordinance. 


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"  Section  II.  No  memb-ir  shall  be  intoxicated, 
under  a  penalty  of  50  cents. 

"  Section  III.  No  member  shall  offer  any  of  said 
liquors  to  any  other  member,  or  urge  other  persons 
to  drink  thereof,  under  a  penalty  of  25  cents  for  each 
offence." 

Even  this  society  brought  upon  its  origi- 
nators great  abuse,  and  cries  of  restraint  of 
liberty.  They  only  held  meetings  once  a 
quarter,  and  during  the  few  years  of  the 
society's  existence  not  one  woman  was  ever 
within  its  doors. 

Nowhere  else  can  we  note  the  advance  in 
temperance  sentiment  more  clearly  than  in 
society  circles.  During  the  early  years  of  the 
present  century  social  wine-drinking  or  the  use 
of  strong  drink  of  some  kind  was  the  almost 
universal  practice  in  American  homes.  The 
sale  of  liquor  was  as  open,  as  common,  and 
as  unchallenged  as  the  sale  of  tea,  coffee, 
dry-goods,  or  groceries.  It  was  not  regarded 
as  a  disreputable  business.  The  liquor-seller 
did  not  lose  caste  in  society.  On  all  social 
occasions,  at  funerals,  amid  the  toils  of  daily 
labor,  at  meals,  in  entertaining  ministers, 
liquor  was  freely  used.     Women  and  children 


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123 


I 


drank  almost  as  freely  as  men.  A  woman 
did  not  endanger  her  social  position  even  by 
drinking  to  intoxication  at  a  public  dinner. 
Now  we  all  know  that  this  is  marvellously 
changed  for  the  better  throughout  the  great 
respectable  class  of  American  citizenship.  In 
the  froth  and  the  dregs  of  American  civili- 
zation liquor  is  perhaps  used  as  commonly 
now  as  it  ever  has  been.  If  you  will  permit 
me  to  compare  American  citizenship  to  a  pie, 
I  will  say  that  the  upper  crust  is  steeped  in 
champagne,  and  the  lower  crust  soaked  in 
beer ;  but  the  great  middle  of  the  pie  was 
never  so  clean,  so  sober,  so  wholesome  in 
every  way,  as  it  is  in  this  year  of  our  Lord 
1896.  Neither  wine  nor  intoxicating  liquors 
of  any  kind  is  expected  on  the  tables  of 
an  overwhelming  majority  of  the  homes  of 
America.  It  is  the  exception  now,  and  not 
the  rule. 

Let  it  be  noted  that  in  our  modern  temper- 
ance campaign  against  the  liquor  traffic  we 
have  driven  it  from  its  respectable,  unchal- 
lenged position  of  a  necessary  food,  to  its  ref- 
uge behind  the  licensed  but  disgraced  screen 


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124        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 

of  the  saloon.  In  its  use  we  have  driven  it 
from  the  table  of  the  great  controlling  class 
of  our  citizenship  into  the  closet  and  secret 
flask ;  and,  by  the  help  of  God,  we  will  not 
stop  until  we  drive  it  from  the  closet  through 
the  sewer  and  the  penitentiary  into  the  hell 
where  it  belongs  ! 

Another  most  hopeful  indication  may  be 
noted  in  the  different  training  given  to  chil- 
dren at  the  present  time  as  compared  with 
that  of  a  half-century  or  more  ago. 

When  our  fathers  were  young,  they  drank 
at  log-rollings,  at  barn-raisings,  quilting-bees, 
weddings,  funerals,  and  on  every  social  occa- 
sion. The  children  of  that  generation  were 
educated  to  believe  that  the  moderate  use  of 
alcoholic  liquors  was  necessary  to  health.  One 
of  the  hardest  things  temperance  people  have 
had  to  contend  with  in  the  past  forty  years 
has  been  to  meet  these  erroneous  teachings 
that  have  solidified  into  the  firm  convictions 
of  men  and  women  past  middle  age.  It  is 
very  hard  to  clear  from  the  minds  of  people 
delusions  which  they  have  cherished  from  days 
of  childhood.      Indeed,   it   may  be  doubted   if 


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THE    OUTLOOK  OF  TEMPERANCE.        12$ 

the  impressions  made  upon  the  brain  in  child- 
hood are  ever  effaced.  If  you  teach  a  child 
that  a  lie  is  the  truth,  he  may  discover,  after 
he  has  grown  up,  that  he  has  been  wrongly 
taught ;  but  the  influence  of  that  early  teach- 
ing will  have  more  or  less  effect  upon  him  as 
long  as  he  lives. 

John  B.  Finch  used  to  relate  these  two 
very  interesting  and  pertinent  experiences  : 
He  once  visited  an  old  lady  in  New  York 
city.  He  was  sitting  chatting  with  her  when, 
interrupting  him,  she  said,  "  I  want  to  tell 
you  something."  And  then  she  told  him  of 
a  wedding  that  had  occurred  fifty-seven  years 
before.  She  described  how  the  parties  were 
dressed,  told  who  was  there,  gave  their  names 
readily,  and  the  details  of  the  affair  as  minutely 
and  accurately  as  though  she  had  been  read- 
ing from  a  book.  When  she  had  finished  her 
story,  Mr.  Finch  said  to  her,  "  Mother  Stuart, 
will  you  tell  me  what  you  had  for  dinner  yes- 
terday } "  Putting  her  hand  up  to  her  head, 
she  studied  and  looked  perplexed,  and  finally 
said,  "Well,  now  isn't  it  strange  how  we  for- 
get ? "      She  could  remember  accurately,   dis- 


126        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


tinctly,  what  had  occurred  fifty-seven  years 
before,  but  what  had  occurred  twenty-four 
hours  before  had  left  no  impression  on  the 
brain. 

The  other  incident  was  of  an  occasion  when 
he  visited  an  insane  asylum  in  New  England, 
and  asked  the  superintendent  to  see  a  certain 
minister.  He  had  known  the  minister  in  his 
home  as  one  of  the  best  and  truest  of  men, 
who,  by  mental  overwork,  had  wrecked  him- 
self and  become  a  raving  maniac.  The  super- 
intendent of  the  asylum  said,  "  You  will  not 
want  to  see  him." 

But  Finch  said,  *•  Yes ; "  and  he  was  taken 
to  the  ward  in  the  asylum  known  as  the  bed- 
lam ward,  and  into  a  cell  where  the  inmate  was 
locked  up  in  a  machine  called  the  "  strait- 
jacket,"  to  prevent  him  from  injuring  himself. 
As  they  entered  the  room,  oaths  as  vile  and 
vulgar  and  terrible  as  ever  fell  on  a  human 
ear  issued  from  the  insane  man's  lips.  The 
visitor  touched  the  superintendent  on  the 
shoulder,  and  said  he  did  not  wish  to  stay 
longer.  Going  down  the  corridor,  he  turned 
to   the   superintendent    and   inquired,    **  What 


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can  this  mean?  When  I  knew  that  man  he 
was  one  of  the  grandest  Christians  —  true, 
noble,  and  good  in  every  respect  —  and  now 
to  hear  such  vile  language  coming  from  him 
shocks  me." 

Said  the  superintendent,  "  He  learned  to 
swear  when  a  boy.  The  impressions  were 
made  upon  the  brain  at  that  period  of  his 
life  when  the  brain  most  readily  receives  im- 
pressions. When  reason  was  dethroned,  these 
impressions  became  the  governing  ones." 

What  a  fearful  illustration  of  the  power  of 
training! 

Now,  in  the  past  we  have  had  this  almost 
omnipotent  force  against  us.  But  as  I  look 
abroad  over  the  land,  and  study  the  lessons 
to  be  gleaned  from  observation,  I  thank  God 
that  I  plainly  read  in  the  faces  of  the  child- 
hood of  America  that  in  the  new  generation 
a  large  proportion  of  this  mighty  force  shall 
work  for  sobriety  and  righteousness.  Already 
in  all  the  Territories,  by  Congressional  en- 
actment, and  in  a  great  majority  of  the  States, 
and  soon  in  all  of  them,  our  children  are  to 
be  taught  in  the  public  schools  the  poisonous 


128         SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


and  deadly  effect  of  alcohol  on  the  body  and 
brain  of  humanity.  Our  forefathers  were 
taught  in  their  youth  that  alcohol  was  a  food ; 
our  children  shall  be  taught  that  it  is  a  de- 
structive enemy.  And  while  the  public  school 
is  doing  this,  there  gather  in  the  churches  of 
America  every  Sunday  from  twelve  to  fifteen 
millions  of  Sunday-school  children  who  are  be- 
ing taught  by  nearly  two  millions  of  Chris- 
tian men  and  women ;  and  in  nine  schools  out 
of  ten  they  are  taught  that  drunkenness  is  a 
most  damning  sin,  and  that  alcohol  is  not  only 
the  enemy  of  nerve  and  brain,  but  the  de- 
stroyer of  the  soul  as  well.  If  the  saloon- 
keeper will  put  his  ear  to  the  ground,  he  may 
hear  not  only  the  stumbling  tread  of  a  million 
drunkards  staggering  to  their  doom  from  under 
his  hand,  but  the  deeper  tramp,  tramp,  tramp 
of  these  millions  of  boys  and  girls  who  are 
coming  to  manhood  and  womanhood  with  a 
vow  deep  and  sacred  m  their  hearts  of  un- 
dying hatred  to  rum ! 

And  marching  at  the  head  of  that  procession 
of  American  childhood  is  the  army  of  Chris- 
tian   mothers   of    America,    marshalled    under 


THE   OUTLOOK  OF    TEMTERAXCE.        1 29 

the  banner  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Tcnv 
pcrancc  Union,  roused  to  all  the  energy  of  a 
mother's  love,  to  cL.  battle  for  "God,  and 
Home,  and  every  Land." 

We  now  come  to  note  the  attitude  of  the 
law   to   the   liquor   traffic.     And   in   the   very 
nature   of    things    this    is   the   last   point    to 
show  advancement.     The   final   crystallization 
of     thought     and    sentiment     and    conscience 
and  conviction  is  to  be  found  in  the  law.     A 
few  years  ago  we  had    a  very  rapid  advance 
in   the  way  of   gaining   prohibitory   law,   and 
the    liquor    traffic    greatly   feared    that    they 
were  on  the  eve  of  a  complete  overthrow  in 
the  United  States.    Many  shrewd  political  ex- 
perts considered  it  very  likely  that  the  pres- 
ent generation  might  see  national  prohibition 
of   the   saloon.      Some   distinguished   political 
journals,  notable  among  which  was   the   New 
York   Tribune y  began  to  show  a  decided  drift 
in    favor   of   making    national    prohibition   the 
battle-cry  of  the   Republican   Party.     But  the 
liquor  traffic,  availing  itself  of  its  great  wealth, 
began  to   disgorge  enormous  corruption  funds 
to  break  down  the  enforcement  of  prohibitory 


130        SEVEN   TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


laws  where  they  had  been  enacted,  and  to 
keep  constitutional  amendments  from  being 
carried  in  other  States.  The  result  has  been 
a  lull  in  aggressive  prohibition  effort.  And 
yet,  in  spite  of  all  this  —  a  reaction  which 
ought  to  have  been  expected  by  temperance 
people,  and  which  does  not  for  a  moment 
indicate  that  prohibitory  laws  are  outworn  — 
there  is  to-day  a  larger  population  living 
under  laws  where  the  dram-shop  is  prohibited, 
and  where  the  open  licensed  saloon  is  un- 
known, than  at  any  time  in  our  history.  Not 
only  is  this  so,  but  we  are  having  constant 
illustrations,  as  in  the  late  Roosevelt  cam- 
paign for  the  closing  of  the  liquor-saloons  on 
Sunday  in  New  York  city,  of  the  increasing 
hatred  of  the  liquor  traffic  among  the  people. 
During  that  campaign,  newspapers  of  every 
type,  high  and  low,  have  not  failed  to  ex- 
press in  most  scathing  language  the  utter 
vileness  of  the  liquor  saloon,  and  to  depre- 
cate the  tide  of  misery  and  crime  that  flows 
from  it. 

True,    there    never   was    a    time,    perhaps, 
when  the  liquor  traffic  was  so   intrenched  in 


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T/ll-:   OUTLOOK  OF   TJiMPEKAiVCi:.        I3I 

wealth,  and   so  thoroughly  intrenched  in  gov- 
ernment   and     in    political    intrigue,    as    it    is 
to-day;  but  the  history  of  our  country  shows 
us  that  there  is   no   necessity  for  discourage- 
ment   to   temperance   men    \\\    that   fact ;    for 
the    same   was    true    of    slavery    on    the   very 
eve  of  its  destruction.     Five  years  before  the 
day  when    there  was   not    a   slave   under   the 
flag,   slavery  was   more   intrenched   in    wealth, 
in    government,    in   p<H''ical    power   of    every 
kind,    than    ever   befo       in    its    history.      We 
have   seen    enough    in    the   last    few   years    of 
-the   success   of   moral    reform    in   the    United 
States   to  show   us    that  anything  is  possible 
of    accomplishment    in    this    country   that    is 
good  enough  to  be  true. 

Only  a  little  while  ago  the  Louisiana  Lot- 
tery held  such  a  grip  on  this  country  that 
it  was  publicly  declared  in  Congress,  and  in 
many  leading  newspapers,  to  be  beyond  the 
power  of  the  government  to  overthrow  it.  But 
it  was  overthrown.  And  when  once  the  Chris- 
tian sentiment  of  the  country  was  thoroughly 
aroused,  very  short  work  was  made  of  it. 
Only  a  little  while  ago  prize-fights  were  a 


132         SEVEN   TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 


very  popular  sort  of  amusement  for  the  gen- 
eral public.  Up  to  within  the  last  ten  years, 
and  less  time  than  that,  it  has  been  possible 
to  carry  off  prize-fights  in  many  parts  of  the 
United    States   with    but    little   fear    of    lesral 

o 

interference.  And  within  the  last  six  years 
some  of  the  most  widely  circulated  newspapers 
in  the  United  States  risked  the  declaration 
that  prize-fighting  would  probably  continue  in 
this  country  till  the  end  of  time.  But  to-day 
there  is  not  a  foot  of  -oil  under  the  control 
of  the  Stars  and  Stripes  where  prize-fighting 
can  be  legally  carried  on. 

These  gr^at  moral  victories  ought  to  give 
us  increased  courage  in  our  fight  against  the 
liquor  trafific.  There  is  moral  and  religious 
power  enough  in  this  country  to  not  only  en- 
act national  prohibition  of  the  liquor  traffic, 
but  to  enforce  it.  The  last  ditch  of  the  liquor 
traffic  is  the  high-license  system.  To  put  the 
community  into  a  position  where  it  will  edu- 
cate its  children  on  the  blood-money  of  the 
traffic  was  a  cunning  device  of  the  liquor 
interest.  But,  like  all  cunning,  it  will  over- 
reach  its   purpose.      The    great    sober    Chris- 


THE   OUTLOOK  OF   TEMPERANCE.        1 33 

tian  middle  class  will  not  always  be  deceived. 
I  do  not  doubt   the  saloon  will  get  more  and 
more  arrogant,  and   the  bar-keeper,  as  a  boss 
in  politics,  become  more  and  more  vicious  and 
unbearable,  until  the  simmering,  seething  dis- 
content  and  loathing  and   hatred  of   the  best 
manhood  and  womanhood  of  the  country  shall 
come  to  a  white  heat,  and  the  shackles  of  this 
cruel   tyrai.:    shall   be   broken   asunder.      Our 
duty   is    simple.      War,    uncompromising   war, 
is  the  only  manly,  patriotic,  and  Christian  at- 
titude toward  the  saloon.     There  never  was  a 
greater  opportunity  for  young  men  and  young 
women  to  espouse  a  noble  cause  and  do  heroic 
and    chivalric   service   than    in   the   overthrow 
of   this     monstrous     iniquity !      As    Whittier 


smgs : 


"Our  fathers  to  their  graves  have  gone; 
Their  strife  is  past,  their  triumph  won; 
But  sterner  trials  wait  the  race 
Which  rises  in  their  honored  place; 
A  moral  warfare  with  the  crime 
And  folly  of  an  evil  time. 

So  let  it  be.     In  God's  own  might 

We  gird  us  for  the  coming  fight: 

And,  strong  in  him  whose  cause  is  ours, 


134        SEVEN  TIMES  AROUND  JERICHO. 

In  conflict  with  unholy  powers 

We  grasp  the  weapons  he  has  given, — 

The  Light,  the  Truth,  and  Love  of  Heaven." 

This    is  a   time  that   appeals  with   peculiar 
force  to  every  one  who  is  charged  with  a  duty 
of  being  a  teacher  of  the  people  and  a  leader 
of   public  sentiment.     At  Tel-cl-Kebir,  as  the 
British    had  to    be   led   by  starlight  around   a 
dangerous  circle,  Lord  Wolseley  chose  a  young 
naval  officer  to  do  it.     He  piloted  them  suc- 
cessfully, and  when    the  enemy's   fire   opened 
young   Rawson  was    the   first   to   fall.     When 
the  shout    of   victory   went    up   he  lay  dying. 
Lord  Wolseley  galloped  over  the  plain  to  see 
him  before  he  died.     As  he  entered   the  tent 
where  the  young  hero  lay,  a  smile  lit  up  the 
pale  face  of  the  dying  man,  and  with  a  last 
effort  of  his  fading  strength  he  said,  ♦*  General, 
didn't  I  lead  them  straight?" 

This  is  a  time  in  this  greatest  moral  cam- 
paign of  the  ages  when  every  one  called  upon 
to  lead  the  hosts  that  fight  for  humanity 
should,  at  whatever  personal  cost,  "lead  them 
straight !" 


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